Zaman Alwasl has obtained exclusively the Opposition demands and main points to participate in Geneva II which was delivered by Ahmad Jarba, the National Coalition president to the foreign ministers from the Arab League’s member states which will be announced during their meeting this evening:
1- Allow crossing all relief convoys to the besieged areas throughout Syria, especially Mouadamiya suburb and Ghouta towns.
2- Allow and facilitate the work of the World Health Organization workers or those in areas of diseases and epidemics, vaccination campaigns for children.
3- Release all detainees and abducted from the women and children, and clarify the fate of missing persons, and stop the arrests and torture.
4- Stop the indiscriminate shelling of civilians by using warplanes and missile weapons, cluster bombs and other explosive barrels.
The national coalition said also that for serious and success negotiations, it requires the following:
- Bashar al-Assad can not have any role in the transitional period.
- Clear commitment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the co-sponsors and all interested parties to achieve full implimenation of the Geneva statement on 30 June 2012, according to UN Security Council resolution 2118.
- Syrian regime Acceptance that the Conference main objective is to transfer power to a transitional ruling body with full powers and authorities, including the presidential powers under the Constitution in chapter II "executive authority" (1) the President of the Republic and (2) the Council of Ministers, which include military, security, police and intelligence.
- Adopting Geneva Declaration that issued by the parties on June 30, 2012, which confirms that the Transitional Government is the only source of legitimacy and law, and any elections should be organized by the transitional government.
- To exclude all regimes officials who involved in war crimes, and converting them to the judicial authorities for trial.
- Withdrawal of Iranian revolutionary guards and Hezbollah militiamen and Abu Al-Fadhel Al-Abbas militia and others from all Syrian territory.
- Geneva resolutions should be binding and enforceable by the UN Security Council.
- A specific timeframe not later than the first quarter of 2014 to form the transitional Government authority with full powers.
-The national coalition is responsible to choose the representatives of Geneva II from the Syrian opposition.
A day ago, main Syrian opposition group discussed with the head of the Arab League a proposed peace conference to end the country’s civil war.
The talks in Cairo came a day before foreign ministers from
the League’s member states were to meet to discuss the 2 1/2-year crisis and
the peace talks expected to take place later this month.
The meeting between leaders of the Syrian National Coalition
and Nabil Elaraby came as UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi voiced
uncertainty about the proposed Geneva peace conference scheduled for late
November.
Senior coalition official Burhan Ghalioun denied after the
talks that the group is under pressure from the League to participate in the
Geneva conference.
The Syrian opposition is made up of different factions, many
of them politicians based in exile – the majority of whom are part of the
coalition, the main umbrella group. The coalition is demanding President Bashar
Assad to step down.
Haitham al-Maleh, another coalition official, said the demands of the opposition will be announced during the Arab foreign ministers meeting Sunday. The basics, he said, include an end to government aerial bombardment, releasing political prisoners and ending the siege of some rebel-held, according to AP.
More than 120,000 people have been killed so far in the war, now in its third year, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which closely monitors the war through a network of activists in the country. The UN said in July that 100,000 Syrians have been killed, and has not updated that figure since. Millions of Syrians have fled their homes because of the fighting.
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