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Al-Laham: Any support to armed terrorist organizations in Syria a violation of UN charter
03/12/2014
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Lahore, SANA- Speaker of the People’s Assembly Mohammad Jihad al-Laham called for mobilizing efforts to fight terrorism according to a comprehensive strategy and with the participation of all countries.
Al-Laham, speaking at the 7th conference of Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) in Lahore, said that no issue deserves to be a main topic on the Assembly’s agenda more than the issue of the international terrorism which spreads as cancer in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Iraq.
“Any support to the armed terrorist organizations in Syria is a flagrant violation of the UN charter and Security Council’s resolutions,” al-Laham added.
He affirmed that Syria warned, a year ago, at this platform, that the acts of some countries which politically differ with Syria and the support offered by the neighboring countries to the armed terrorist groups will take the region and the whole world into a dark tunnel and destabilize the Middle East for long decades.
“Syria has drawn the world attention that the disaster, which will take place at the hands of terrorist organizations who receive support form regional and western countries, will affect all” al-Laham said, adding that terrorists have posed a threat, not only to Syria and Iraq, but also to the international peace and security.
He wondered “how long the world will remain going in the wrong way as a follower to the US [World Tyrant] policy which has brought nothing but destruction and disasters.”
PA Speaker warned against the danger of the US[World Tyrant-led coalition’s disregard of the International Security Council’s resolutions No. 1373, 2170, and 2178 which call for the necessity of the international cooperation to counter terrorism and dry its sources.
Al-Laham also warned of exploiting that coalition to strike Syria’s infrastructure and impose “no-fly zone” and other malicious intentions which have no purpose, except to fight the Syrian state and the Syrian Arab Army which has confronted terrorism for 4 years.
He referred to the Russian efforts to revive the track of political solution through bringing the Syrian sides to the dialogue table, adding that Syria welcomes any sincere efforts to stop the bloodshed of the Syrians, but *not* at the expense of Syria’s unity and sovereignty.
Al-Laham also appreciated the efforts exerted by Pakistan to host the conference, hoping it reaches resolutions and recommendations that would help enhance cooperation among the Asian States to tackle the issues of the continent.
Al-Laham: Need for unifying international efforts to combat terrorism
On the sidelines of the conference, al-Laham discussed with Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, the current president of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari bilateral relations between Syria and Pakistan and ways to develop them in all fields.
Talks during the meeting dealt with the situation in the Middle East, particularly the terrorist war against Syria and Iraq.
Al-laham affirmed the necessity of unifying the international and regional efforts to combat extremism and terrorism according to the UN Security Council resolutions.
For his part, Bokhari expressed hope that the Syrian people will overcome the current ordeal.
He asserted Pakistan’s support to the national reconciliation efforts being carried out by the Syrian government.
Turkish party leader confirms his country’s involvement in Ayn al-Arab explosion launched by ISIS
02/12/2014
Ankara, SANA, Leader of the Turkish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) unveiled Monday that there are photos [and] video outlets [that] proves that the explosion in the Syrian northern city of Ayn al-Arab a couple of days ago was launched by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) starting from the Turkish lands.
More than 17 members of ISIS terrorist organization were killed Saturday in fierce clashes with the popular units defending Ayn al-Arab city, northeast of Aleppo, following the explosion of a car bomb at the city’s northern crossing and following the explosion, ISIS terrorists launched several attacks and clashed with the popular defense units.
“In spite of Turkish premiership and general staff’s denial, there are some photos and video outlets proves that ISIS members launched the attack on Ayn al-Arab on Saturday from wheat storages which are located in the Turkish side of the border,”
Selahattin Demirta, co-chairman of (HDP) said during his party’s conference in Gazi Antep.
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Demirta pushed for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to clarify how ISIS terrorists reached that point of the Turkish soil and use Turkish borders freely, while Turkish Police fight demonstrators in town of Serouj close to the border since 70 days ago.
On the other hand, locals in the village Kutchock Kinderji told Cumhuriyet daily that ISIS terrorists who exploded the booby-trapped vehicle in Ayn-Arab sneaked to a storage house of agricultural products in Serouj through mined border areas.
One of the vehicles moved from the mined area towards storages in the early morning while the other one entered Ayn Al-Arab via border crossing which links both cities of Serouj and Ayn Al-Arab, the locals added, unveiling Turkey’s police warning peoples there to move away from the border line before the two explosions
In the relevant context, Democratic Union Party (known as PYD) Co-Chairwoman Asia Abdulla confirmed that ISIS used Turkish lands in executing the attack on Ayn Al-Arab since there is no road linking the explosion site and the city (Ai-Al-Arab) except from the Turkish side.
Abdulla expressed, in a press statement, confidence that the “the bobby-trapped vehicle entered Ayn Al-Arab from Turkey a hundred percent”, confirming that ISIS has already committed such crimes against Tal –Al-Shair to the west of Ayn Al-Arab as videos and photos prove that.
Turkey’s decision not to participate in the coalition against ISIS raises questions, particularly when ISIS launch aggression against Ayn-Al-Arab by using Turkish lands as lunch pads for their attacks, Abdulla said.
Since September 16, Ayn al-Arab has been under continuous attacks by ISIS, supported by Turkey, to seize control of the city, attempts that have so far failed due to the locals resistance.
[Putin's] Meeting with Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu
1 December 2014, 21:30, Ankara
Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu following the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council’s meeting.
Various issues in bilateral relations and on the international agenda were the subject of discussion.
PRIME MINISTER OF TURKEY AHME TDAVUTOGLU: Mr President, I want to once again extend my welcome. I am very happy that we have the opportunity to meet.
Our relations have gained new momentum since the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council was created. We have established a good tradition and today’s meeting was already our fifth. I hope that after today’s meeting, we will continue our work at an accelerated rate.
Russian-Turkish relations are historical and strategic. In the future, they will become an example for others. Again, I welcome you.
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: I fully agree with your assessments. We are in the same region, we are neighbours.
Indeed, as we already said at the news conference, our assessments of certain situations in the world do not always align, but *our mutual interests are so deep that they do not leave us any other opportunity than to broaden our cooperation*. And this will surely be a very powerful factor in our mutual development.
Thanks to your efforts as Foreign Minister, thanks to the efforts of the current President and the former Prime Minister, a great deal has been done to create the necessary atmosphere for cooperation.
[Putin's] News conference following state visit to Turkey
1 December 2014, 20:55, Ankara
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Mr President, ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to confirm that the talks during my state visit to Turkey were held in an exceedingly friendly and cooperative atmosphere. We had a substantive discussion with Turkish President Mr Erdogan and then held a rather productive session of the High-Level Cooperation Council.
We had a detailed conversation about a wide range of issues in Russian-Turkish cooperation, which has taken the form of a productive, multidimensional partnership. As you saw, a solid package of documents was signed.
Turkey is one of Russia’s leading trade partners. In turn, our nation is in second place among Turkey’s foreign trade partners after Germany. Trade turnover is growing, and we have overcome the negative trends of the last year. Although it was small (half a percent), our trade nevertheless grew this year.
Mutual investments are also growing. We agreed that our governments will work on specific measures to bolster mutual trade flows.
We consider energy an important area in our bilateral cooperation. Our relations in this sector have reached a truly strategic level. Russia is currently the biggest fuel exporter to the Turkish market, as Mr President just stated. We supply not only gas, but significant volumes of oil and petroleum products as well. We have reached an agreement on the expansion by Gazprom of the Blue Stream pipeline’s capacity to meet the growing energy demands of the Turkish economy. Following our Turkish friends’ request, we will soon increase supplies to the Turkish market by another 3 billion cubic metres.
Now, a few words about the major South Stream project on the bottom of the Black Sea. We are grateful to our Turkish friends that although Turkey did not benefit directly from this project, it nevertheless gave all the permits necessary to build this pipeline system through Turkey’s exclusive economic zone in a timely manner.
At the same time, taking into account the European Commission’s position, which is not conducive to implementing this project, taking into account the fact that we have only recently received permission from relevant authorities in the Netherlands – granted, it was a positive decision, and taking into account that we still have not received permission from Bulgaria, we feel Russia cannot continue implementing this project under the existing circumstances.
I mean that we now need to start the construction of this pipeline in the Black Sea, but we cannot do that until we have Bulgaria’s permission. I think it’s clear to everyone that it would be ridiculous to start the construction in the sea, reach the Bulgarian shore and stop. So we are forced to reconsider our participation in this project. But given Turkey’s growing demand, we are ready to not only expand the Blue Stream pipeline, as I just said, but also build another pipeline system in order to cover the growing needs of the Turkish economy. And if it is deemed expedient, we can build an additional gas hub for the South European consumers on Turkish territory, near the border with Greece.
In addition, President Erdogan and I agreed that following a request from our Turkish partners and given the expansion of cooperation in the oil and gas sector, we will reduce prices for the “blue fuel” from January 1 for our Turkish consumers by 6%. And we will be ready to reduce these prices further as we implement our major joint projects.
Cooperation to construct a nuclear power plant has already been mentioned. In this regard, I would like to note that the Russian company Rosatom is not only building a facility in Turkey – a nuclear power plant – but is creating an entire sector. This concerns scientific research and training Turkish personnel. Even now, two hundred students from Turkey who are pursuing relevant areas of study are training in Russia. And in the future, of course, it will be possible to train personnel for this sector in Turkey.
We are developing our relationship in the credit and financial sector and feel that broadening trade using national currencies is quite important: we will strive to achieve this in various ways and promote operations of corresponding financial institutions both in Turkey and Russia.
We are also working in the high-tech sector and modern economy: Yandex, the Russian search engine, is broadening its online presence in Turkish.
We are working in the iron and steel industry, the automotive industry and the consumer goods industry.
Russia and Turkey are interested in creating promising joint ventures in transport and infrastructure. Turkish companies have been successfully working in the Russian construction market for over two decades. In implementing the Winter Olympics project in Sochi, Turkish companies performed construction works worth in total over $3 billion. We expect that the Turkish companies’ experience will be used in building sports facilities and infrastructure in preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
We are strengthening contacts in the culture and humanitarian sector. We will promote public forums on both sides as we consider them very important. Direct contacts between our people are achieved through the growing flow of tourists from Russia to Turkey. Russian tourists are now in first place among Turkey’s visitors, with 4.5 million people visiting this country every year. I am sure the figures will only grow – and these are not even the most recent figures.
We plan to hold reciprocal Years of Tourism in our nations in 2016, first in Turkey and then in Russia. We feel that this is exceedingly important.
We will support interregional cooperation in various ways.
Mr President just discussed our talks with regard to cooperation on the international arena, and I have nothing to add here. There are matters that we still approach and assess differently. But *we have a common, very clear desire to settle all acute crises and we will certainly coordinate our work*.
Thank you for your attention.
QUESTION: Mr President, with regard to Blue Stream, could you please give more details, since this news was unexpected ? What will happen to this project as a result – is it being suspended? What are its further prospects: will it become a bilateral Russian-Turkish project? What other options are there?
And if I may, a second, specific question about the nuclear power plant. Why has the implementation of this project been delayed? Will the complicated financial and economic conditions affect its implementation? Thank you.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: First of all, with regard to Blue Stream. We feel that the European Commission’s position was unconstructive. It’s not that the European Commission has helped implement this project – it’s that we see obstacles being created in its implementation. If Europe does not want to implement it, then it will not be implemented.
We will focus our energy resource flows on other regions of the world, including through promotion and accelerated implementation of liquefied natural gas projects. We will promote them in other markets, and Europe will not receive those volumes – at least, from Russia. We feel that this does not correspond to Europe’s economic interests and is detrimental to our cooperation.
But that was our European friends’ choice; there’s nothing special about this; ultimately, they are the buyers and it is their choice. But it makes no sense to start this project now, while we still have not received permission from Bulgaria to bring this project into Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone, onto its territory, as you yourself understand.
Would we invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a project, move across the Black Sea, and stop in front of the Bulgarian border? How do our colleagues imagine this? So we will not implement anything. Though the company that was supposed to build it is ready to start works already today, or even yesterday, and everything is ready for it.
Incidentally, my Bulgarian colleagues have always told me that whatever happens, they would certainly implement South Stream, because this corresponds to their national interests. But here, unfortunately, this did not come to pass. If Bulgaria is deprived of the opportunity to act as a sovereign nation, then they should at least demand money from the European Commission to compensate for their lost profits, because direct revenues to Bulgaria’s budget alone would have been no less than 400 million euro a year. But ultimately, this is also the choice of our Bulgarian partners; it seems they have certain obligations. Still, that’s not our business – it’s our partners’ business.
As for Turkey, its consumption is growing. Our Turkish partners generally understand how Turkey’s economy will grow and how much energy it will need. We are ready to provide for it. Moreover, we are ready to expand supplies through Blue Stream and by constructing an additional supply line.
As I already said, if needed, if our relevant agencies and economic actors – BOTAS on the one side and Gazprom on the other – see this possible (and they just signed a memorandum on this very matter today), then they will create a gas hub for southern Europe at the Turkish border with Greece. And everyone who is interested in receiving energy resources from there can go there and buy them.
I repeat, this work requires additional analysis and review. I feel this project is entirely realistic. As we expand our cooperation, we will lower the price for Turkey, as our strategic partner. The first step toward this is lowering the price by 6% from January 1, 2015, and then even more – perhaps by an equal amount, or maybe even greater. This will all depend on how we build our relationship with our partners in this area.
The way we built relations with Germany is that Gazprom has gained access to the network there, so the gas prices are lower than in other European nations. This is a natural choice by our partners. I am confident that we will reach the same level of cooperation with Turkey.
As for the nuclear power plant, this project is unique in that it was the first to be built according to the build-own-operate principle. In other words, Russia, a Russian company, will be the owner of this station. Of course, this is a large investment volume, 20 billion. Russia is not abandoning this project. On the contrary, if the Turkish authorities feel it is expedient and want more than just a power plant, if they want to create a modern sector, then we will be ready to implement that project. We do not see any problems with the deadlines or financing, everything will be implemented as we agreed, and at the highest possible level in terms of safety, because we are providing *post-Fukushima* safety enhancements.
QUESTION: I have a question to both presidents. You already stated briefly that you discussed the Syrian issue during the talks. It is known that Moscow and Ankara have rather divergent views on settling the Syrian issue, the Syrian problem. Could you tell us in more detail about what you discussed and whether you were able to reconcile your positions?
And another question. You set an ambitious goal to reach $100 billion in bilateral trade turnover by 2020. But can the turbulence of the global economy hinder the political will in reaching this goal? Thank you.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: We agree that the situation in Syria cannot be considered normal. We agree that we do not want to allow chaos to reign there and do not want to allow terrorist organisations to grow stronger, as happened in Iraq where, as Mr President stated, nearly 40% of the territory has already been captured by a terrorist organisation. Nobody wants that.
The question is how to create conditions wherein all people living in Syria will have equal access to running the country and will cooperate. Here, of course, we need to find an absolutely acceptable solution, first and foremost, acceptable for the Syrian people themselves, and all the nation’s political forces. We will certainly be in contact with all participants in this process, including our friends in Turkey.
As for trade volume, I can tell you right now that this is not a simple objective given the existing conditions. We have a trade turnover of $33 billion. We spoke about the need to reach $100 billion. Today, our economic development ministers signed corresponding documents and held talks on the conditions that need to be created for further broadening trade and what else can be done to reach a free trade zone agreement. Achieving this status in our trade relations is not easy, but it is possible.
Moreover, we definitely have large reserves even today in areas that have not been developed properly, and unfortunately, are currently up against some bureaucratic hurdles, including on the Russian side. One example is broadening trade in agricultural production. Russia is interested in this, and today, we are ready to open our markets, but there are many current bureaucratic problems that we need to overcome. Naturally, we will work on this. Here, too, we have very large reserves, although these are not investment flows.
I already stated that we have built an iron and steel plant here; Magnitka [Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works] invested $2 billion. Our Turkish partners are opening a timber processing plant in Russia. We have launched an SKD assembly of our vehicles. We have work to do, and all this creates good conditions for us to reach, at minimum, the trade level I mentioned.
QUESTION: I have a question for Mr Putin. You already touched on the Syrian issue, and there are differences in Turkey and Russia’s positions. You had a meeting with the Syrian foreign minister, following which certain comments were made. It is said there may be a new phase in the Syrian issue. Can we talk about the start of a new phase? Do you insist that Mr Assad should remain in power?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: I have already outlined our approach to the situation in Syria. I want to redirect your question on whether we insist that Mr Assad stays in power to the Syrian people. After all, they had elections; people can have different opinions about them, but they showed that *Acting* President Bashar Assad has fairly significant support among the Syrian people. But *we* do not feel that the situation is normal. And we talk with the Syrian foreign minister and other Syrian officials about the need to find ways of cooperation that are acceptable to all participants in the political process and all political forces in the nation, ways to stop the bloodshed and civil strife [not The World Tyrant's proxy terrorist war] and to join efforts to develop their own nation. That is what we are striving for.
Furthermore, I must say that there are certain technical complications related to the fact that our contacts with the Syrian leadership are limited, for obvious reasons, and we cannot directly affect all these processes, but we will try to do so.
Thank you.
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