America and Turkey agree to mobilize the international community against Assad and the opposition political help
Obama: There is no magic formula for how to Assad's departure *
Erdogan: I will discuss with several countries how to speed up the
process of political transition
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He stressed the U.S. president on his agreement with the Turkish Prime Minister about the need to pay to achieve a transition process in Syria and the need for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad, while continuing to mobilize the international community to exert more pressure on the Assad regime and the opposition and help provide more humanitarian aid.
Obama said during a press conference held garden flowers in the White
House and was delayed for more than fifty minutes: «the United States
will continue to help the host countries for the Syrian refugees and we
are working with the Turks to provide food and shelter for them and we
agreed on the need for the departure of Assad and work to establish a
Syria free of the Assad regime and away from the extremism and protect
all ethnic spectra ».
In answer to reporters' questions about the use of the Syrian regime
for chemical weapons and the red line set in his warnings to the Syrian
government, Obama said: «We have preliminary evidence on the use of the
Syrian regime for chemical weapons and trying to get reliable
information about what is happening, and when we collect the evidence we
will give everything we have for the international community and my job
working with international partners to find a solution aimed at the
stability of the region and this is something you do not the United
States alone ».
Obama said: «Unlike chemical weapons, we know that hundreds of
thousands are killed and this calls for international action and what we
do is to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to the opposition
politically and provide the potential for the opposition inside Syria
will enable them to defend themselves against the Assad regime and to
mobilize the international community to put pressure on Assad, and
payment to make a move political ».
The U.S. president refused to clarify the time plan for the departure of Assad.
He said: «prefer his departure two years ago or a year ago or last
month, because Assad lost his legitimacy when he began to kill people
who were pretending to Bslmah There is no magic formula for how the
departure of Assad and dealing with such a violent situation in Syria».
Obama said that his talks with Turkish Prime Minister focused on three
areas to expand the areas of trade and investment between the two
countries and issues of common security and counter-terrorism as well as
regional issues and the situation in Syria.
As explained Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he would
resume his discussions with President Obama on Syria, explaining their
agreement on the need to respond to the aspirations of the Syrian people
and the departure of Assad and supporting the opposition and prevent
turning Syria into a haven for terrorism and prevent the use of chemical
weapons and to promote the exchange of intelligence between Turkey and
the United States and other countries around the arms Chemical in Syria.
Erdogan said: «I want to accelerate the process of political transition
in Syria, so I will visit other countries to see how we can accelerate
the process of political transition and prevent the killing of more
victims and ensure the establishment of a democratic process in Syria to
ensure end to dictatorship and democracy-building, and this is what we
will continue to work».
He added: «We will discuss a roadmap based on the Geneva Accord and
Beyond and the need for the Security Council to exercise pressure and
the need for participation of Russia».
In another matter, Erdogan said that he intends to proceed with a
planned trip to the Gaza Strip next month, despite pressure from the
United States for the delay.
Erdogan said «I give great importance to the visit with regard to peace in the Middle East». He said he also plans to visit the West Bank during that trip.
In Turkey, criticized the Turkish President Abdullah Gul global
reaction to the conflict in Syria yesterday and said he is limited to
words, adding that his country had not received a little help to cope
with the influx of huge numbers of Syrian refugees on them.
He called Gul, who spoke to reporters in the town of Rihaniyya border -
where the resulting detonate two car bombs killed more than 50 people
at the beginning of this week - the calm after the incident, which
sparked anti-government protests against the violent reaction of the
Syrian refugees in the town.
In addition to hosting about 400 thousand Syrian refugees Turkey
strongly supports the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad but
Rihaniyya bombings have increased concerns about the spread of the
conflict with its neighbor South, which entered its third year out of
the border.
Gul told reporters in Rihaniyya The contribution of the international
community in the financial aid provided by Turkey for those who are
going through difficult positions just a token contribution.
He added that from the beginning of the international community has not
been used, but the words and claims the championship in his dealings
with the Syrian problem. The United Nations says the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey could jump to one million by the end of this year.
In the meantime, yesterday announced that the United States provided
financial assistance worth 32 million dollars to the agencies of the
United Nations in order to secure the necessary emergency assistance to
thousands of displaced people and refugees from Syria as well as their
host communities in Lebanon.
The High Commissioner of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees
and the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),
in a press statement yesterday, said that this contribution comes «in
when needed urgently to more support in the area of shelter, water and
sanitation and community support ».
The statement pointed out that «with this gift, bringing the total
contributions to the United States in response to deal with the Syrian
crisis in Lebanon to 88 million U.S. dollars since 2012».
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