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Russian Foreign Minister held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, shortly after he arrived in Damascus and received by thousands of regime supporters.
"Every leader in every country should be aware of his share of responsibility. You are aware of yours," Lavrov said to Assad as they kicked off the talks, according to English-language reports by Russian news agencies.
"We hope that the Arab people can live in peace and understanding," the Russian envoy added.
Syrian state news agency SANA said that the foreign minister arrived in Damascus amid huge popular reception in appreciation of Russia's support to Syria, people and its reform program.
"Huge crowds flocked to ... greet Minister Lavrov and express appreciation of Russia's stances," it said.
State television showed footage of a sea of people waving Syrian and Russian flags as they lined the streets of the capital, many chanting: "Thank you Russia, thank you China."
"I want to thank Russia and China for their stand in support of the Syrian people," one woman said, before crowds swarmed to greet Lavrov's convoy.
Lavrov's trip comes days after Russia vetoed along with China a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria.
The mission is taking place on the orders of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian state media have said Lavrov is bearing a message from the Kremlin for Assad.
The foreign ministry said on Sunday the trip aimed to stabilize the escalating crisis in Syria by winning the "rapid implementation of much-needed democratic reforms" by the Assad regime.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Lavrov refused to divulge the purpose of the mission.
"When you go on a mission on the order of the head of state then the purpose of the mission is usually only revealed to the person it is addressed to. If I tell you everything now, then what is the point?" he said.
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Thanks, I glad for Syrian people. Hand off from Syria, not Lybian scenario!!!
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ReplyDeleteIn case you did not see it, please find below link to the speech of the Syrian Communist Party. dd dec. past in Athens.
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http://www.solidnet.org/syria-syrian-communist-party-kb/2402-13-imcwp-contribution-of-the-syrian-cp-ar
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The stand of Syrian communist party is clear and lies in the confrontation to imperialist projects and support the national regime and its anti- imperialism projects approach, supporting the democratic reforms which in general close to the program directions of our party in this area. As well as the steady struggle in order to review the economic liberal orientation and all laws embody it. We always remind, that this orientation is the one who prepared the suitable soil of subversive work of reactionary forces. The abandonment of this orientation will strengthen the anti- colonial approach which applied by Syria and will strengthen the convolution of masses around it.
When we look to the situation in Syria we have to take into account that the opposition forces don’t form a democratic alternative, the reactionary strike force is Muslim Brotherhood organization who stained itself by committed of collective killing and who completely related with imperialism and Arab reactionary regimes, while the liberal of all types are used as curtain of these obscurant forces.
We prepare our people for all probabilities including the confrontation of military aggression. We are confident that if this aggression occur, Syria will turn into a grave yard for the aggressors. The Syrian people has an ingrained national heritage of struggle against colonialism. It isn’t vainly what one of the smarter French imperialism representatives Charles de Gaulle said: ″delusive who thinks that he could subdue Syria″, yes ″Syria will not kneel down″.
I pasted just a frangment, but you may want to read the speech in full.
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