Interim
Defence Minister of the opposition government has retracted his resignation due
to Turkish and American pressure, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl.
The
source, based in Istanbul, said Dr. Asaad Mustafa has been subjected to an
intense pressure since he delivered his resignation letter to the National
Coalition yesterday by both Turkish and American intelligence that held closed
meeting with Mustafa in the border city with Syria, Gaziantep, lasted until the
early morning hours of Saturday.
Close
sources said the former agriculture minister in Bashar al-Assad's government
was resigned over disputes with the American-backed Gen. Salim Idriss, Supreme
Commander of the Military Council.
The
discord with Idriss has been escalated over leading and funding the rebel
groups on the ground, especially the moderate ones and whose operate under Free
Syrian Army (FSA).
Sources said the Interim Defence Minister has
big role in establishing Syrian Revolutionaries Front, a moderate rebel group
that fights the State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Mustafa’s resignation letter, seen by Zaman
Alwasl, has pointed out to lack of an active role on the ground, "the
efforts that are being made –by the government- are not worth anything in front
of the greatness of rebels’ sacrifices.”
The
current Interim government under leadership of Dr. Ahmad Toumeh, was formed on September 15 2013, with no powers seen
on the ground, activists said.
The
prominent dissident, in many occasions, has called on Arab states to “unite”
their support and make it go through the interim government and its Defense
Ministry. He stressed the need that “the support from our brothers and friends
rise to the level of the magnitude of the disaster that we are facing. ... We
are facing a criminal regime that has allies helping it in committing murder and
crimes and are giving it money, arms and men. The [Syrian regime also gets]
political support from a major country in the Security Council: Russia,”
according to Al Monitor.
The
statement said that Syria has been destroyed on the eyes and ears of the world,
which is divided between a participant in Assad’s massacres and a languid who
covers his weakness by taking an active role in useless initiatives and
conferences which have achieved nothing for the Syrian revolution, in allusion
to the negotiations, " Geneva 2 " in the ongoing second round now.
Meanwhile
the Syrian death toll rose to 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.
Syria's
nearly three-year conflict began as popular protests against four decades of
Assad family rule but changed into armed insurgency under a security force
crackdown.
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