Syrian opposition meeting pledges stable transition
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| Mr Riad Hijab highest-ranking dissident |
Representatives of the Syrian National Coalition yesterday
announced their determination to provide a stable transitional government that
will lead Syria
smoothly into a free post-Assad era.
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“Syria will be safe after Assad
falls and we are not waiting for that to happen in order to take things
forward. It’s only a matter of time,” said Riad Hijab, the former Syrian prime
minister and now the highest-ranking dissident.
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“Today’s talks were a step forward and very
successful. The transitional government has been formed with the people’s
interests and choices. It is made up of representatives of people and will
include all factions of Syria
in the government,” he said, adding that the coalition government insisted on Syria ’s
sovereignty.
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He noted that the Syrian Free
Army took up arms to defend the Syrians’ lives, dignity, honour and glory.
“We in the National Free Alliance
stand with the Syrian Free Army in the same trench and call for its support
with money, weapons and media to defend the Syrian citizens”, Hijab said, stressing
that the support of the Free Army was the only way to change reality and get
out of the situation which “the killer brought us to”.
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He expressed deep gratitude and
thanks to Qatar
for sponsoring and hosting the conference and for its support and assistance to
the Syrian people “in the face of one of the worst tyrants throughout history”.
