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Qatar and Saudi Arabia call for arming opposition forces against the President Bashar al-Assad.
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Defense News - Syria |
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Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10:19 AM | |||
Qatar and Saudi Arabia call for arming opposition forces against the President Bashar al-Assad. | |||
DAMASCUS,
(SANA) - Foreign and Expatriates Ministry Spokesman, Dr. Jihad Maqdisi,
on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, described the Qatari and Saudi calls
for arming the Syrian opposition as hostile to Syria, placing on those
who announce such calls the political responsibility for the bloodshed
in Syria. |
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Tunisian foreign minister Rafik Abdessalem, center opens the Conference on Syria in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. |
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"The
Syrian response to such calls was reserved. We would like the brothers
in Qatar and Saudi Arabia or whomsoever to contribute to getting the opposition
figures to act rationally and come to the dialogue table, and not to arming
the opposition and shedding the Syrian blood, for which they are fully
responsible as they are consciously shedding it," Maqdisi told a
press conference at the Ministry's headquarters. |
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