Meeting between People’s Council of West-Kurdistan and Kurdish National Council in Qamishli today to solve their problems – Welati.
Ex-Ambassador Robert FORD To Syria: Civil War Could Drag On For Years / Listen to Audio Interview
TODAY’S MESOP COMMENARY : Too little too late
When Robert Ford — the U.S. ambassador to Syria — resigned in February, he said he no longer felt he could defend American policy in that country. Ford faults the U.S. for having been unable to address the root causes of the conflict and for being consistently behind the curve as the Syrian civil war intensified. The diplomat had to leave Damascus in early 2012 and had been working on Syria from Washington until his resignation. “The situation in Syria has gone from bad to very bad to still worse, and the measures we have taken have been, in most cases, too little and too late,” he tells NPR’s Robert Siegel.
MESOP Syrienhilfe: Wadi Deutschland – Medikamente & Impfstoffe für Ghouta
5.6.2012 – Gemeinsam mit unserem Partner Green Cross konnte WADI e.V. im Mai die syrische Organisation Al Sareej mit Medikamenten und Impfstoffen unterstützen, die dringend in den von Assads Truppen eingekesselten Vororten von Damaksus benötigt werden. Ghouta wurde im vergangenen August Schauplatz des bislang größten und tödlichsten Einsatzes von Giftgas gegen die Zivilbevölkerung.
MESOP : SYRIA AFTER THE ELECTION FARCE / Forget about the Chemical weapons deadline
OPCW: ‘The deadline will not be met’
The OPCW is currently investigating allegations that the Syrian Army attacked multiple towns in the provinces of Hama and Idlib using chlorine gas. The Chemical Weapons Convention, which the Syrian government signed in October 2013, allows countries to have chlorine, but states that the government must declare its presence to the OPCW and prevents its use as a weapon.Syria will not meet the deadline to remove chemical weapons from its territory, the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations (OPCW-UN) Joint Mission, Sigrid Kaag, told reporters on Wednesday.
The crumbling facade – Former Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford finally says what’s on the minds of the entire US State Department
TODAY’S MESOP OPINION : BY MICHAEL WEISS ( NOW MEDIA)
5.6.2014 – That great historian Robert Conquest once told Christopher Hitchens that it was no longer useful to distinguish between left and right in politics because “fools and knaves [I’m quoting Hitchens’ paraphrase here] of all kinds needed to be opposed and that what was really needed was a ‘United Front Against Bullshit.’”
TODAY’S MESOP COMMENTARY BY YPG (PYD) – WEST KURDISTAN (INTERVIEW)
Syria is being divided into small states: YPG official
“Syria is being divided into small states; so we have to prove ourselves and gain the official or semi-official or even a real recognition from world’s power centers. We need also to build relations with the democratic Syrian opposition based on mutual interests and acceptance,” he added
Syrian Kurdish parties meet to solve tensions / SOURCE: WELATI
TODAY’S MESOP COMMENTARY : Disaster in the Levant: the Syrian Civil War in its fourth year / Jonathan Spyer
02-Jun-2014 |fathom – Jonathan Spyer is one of the few policy experts to regularly visit the front lines in Syria. In this article, he maps the state of the conflict today and the character of the forces waging it. He argues there is no longer a single ‘civil war’ between a regime and a rebellion, but a vicious and chaotic battle between a variety of powerful entities, each strong enough to prevent its destruction by any of the others, promising only continued war and the further fragmentation of the country.
Assad wins Syria’s presidential election in a landslide with 88.7 percent of the vote
MESOP : THE RESULTS OF A BLOODY FARCE IN SYRIA
ELECTION QUALITY PROOFED BY RUSSIA & REVOLUTIONARY VENEZUELA
Delegation member Alexey Alexandrov, a Russian senator, told reporters in Damascus that the elections assured “Assad’s legitimacy and mean he cannot be removed in a military operation.”
By ALBERT AJI, Associated Press – DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad has been re-elected in a landslide, officials said Wednesday, capturing another seven-year term in the middle of a bloody 3-year-old uprising against his rule that has devastated the country.
Dispatch: Kurds Prevent Presidential Elections in Northern Syria / By Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Kurdish security officers posing with victory signs after confiscating ballot boxes, June 3, 2014. (Photo from author: Instagram/welatimir)
On June 3, the Assad regime held presidential elections in the parts of Syria it still controls. In Northern Syria, however, Kurdish security forces confiscated the ballot boxes. Serbest Rezan, responsible for the Kurdish security police in the city of Qamishli, said they confiscated at least 120 polling stations. The Kurds plan to continue disruption of the Syrian government’s plans so long as it does not recognize the Kurdish administrations created in northern Syria by the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
MESOP FOCUS : RAZAN ZEITOUNEH / Entführte syrische Journalistin : Ein Hashtag für die Freiheit
…. Was andere bestürzt + mit Protest zur Kenntnis nahmen, deutsche Menschenrechts- und Hilfsorganisationen aber nicht:
Die syrische Journalistin Razan Zeitouneh wurde von Islamisten entführt. Jetzt haben ihre Unterstützer eine Facebook-Kampagne gestartet, um sie zu befreien. Dem Westen machen sie schwere Vorwürfe.
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