Opposition Bureau in London suffers lack of funding

 Syria's opposition Bureau in London has restricted its activities according funding problems, the National Coalition envoy to  Britain said . 

 Mr. Waleed Saffour revealed in a private message, obtained by Eqtsad, Coalition secretariat Mr. Hadi al-Bahra that all political and media activities were limited due to lack of money and funding.

 ''The political, logistic and media plans have been going on at the minimum level in London office as long as there is no financial spending,'' Saffour said.

London's envoy has demanded the coalition to pay the expenses and salaries for the previous eight months.

“We have been struggling for nine months to secure an office, to make it as a base for official work and meetings, however, unfortunately, no one interested in achieving this” Saffour explained.

In clarifying the bad situation of the bureau, Saffour has written, ''The lack of fund and communication channel prevented doing many activities such as holding a press conference, seminar, printing posters and media materials.”

The coalition representative confirmed that the new headquarter has not communicated with London office since the latest selection of the President and the Secretary General of the coalition, and he did not received any reply for many messages to Secretary-General Dr. Bader Jamoos, till he had to speak firmly: “I expected you to reply, and we, in London office, do not have direct contact with coalition leadership and I repeatedly demanded hotline, and a clear reference."

He added that "British officials noticed the shortage of support and activities of London office.

In a related context, Saffour pointed that London office has several activities in Britain to illustrate facts about chemical massacre in Ghout that killed 1,500 civilians, most of them children and women, such as the distributing a message on behalf of the Coalition to British parliament to explain the attack as well as to respond to the allegations of MP "George Galloway" London office coordinated with other to sit-in on Thursday in front of the U.S. embassy and the other in front of the British Cabinet on Saturday, and to hold a funeral ceremony for the martyrs.