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Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry telah berkata bahawa Amerika Syarikat dan
sekutu-sekutunya akan memperluaskan sokongan mereka kepada pembang-kang Syria.
Comments Kerry datang selepas umum Amerika Syarikat berkata pemberontak Syria
tidak mempunyai cara untuk mengalahkan Presiden Assad.
Setiausaha
Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry yang memenuhi British kementerian Luar
William Hague di London berkata Amerika Syarikat dan sekutu-sekutunya telah
bersetuju untuk meningkatkan sokongan mereka kepada pembangkang Syria tetapi
tidak menya-takan yang dimaksudkan menyiapkan mereka.
Kerry
berkata beliau terbuka untuk meningkatkan bantuan kepada Syria tetapi berkata
bahawa tiada keputusan telah dibuat untuk mengubah strategi bantuan Amerika
Syarikat umum ke Syria.
Pemberontak
Syria tidak mempunyai kuasa mampu memegang kerajaan untuk mentadbir bantuan dan menentang serangan gaji rejim Assad semasa, Jeneral Martin Dempsey, pengerusi
Ketua Turus Bersama, memberitahu Majlis Atlantik, pemikir dalam bidang hal
ehwal antarabangsa, Washington, DC.
"Mereka
perlu kuasa yang mereka ada sekarang, yang cuba untuk melindungi
kampung-kampung tempatan dan cuba untuk mengganggu rejim dan taraf yang sama.
Mereka memerlukan sesuatu yang akhirnya akan dapat bertahan," katanya.
Beliau
menambah bahawa militan yang sedang berjuang rejim Assad tidak mempunyai
apa-apa "keupayaan ‘counterterrorism" untuk menghapuskan
kumpulan-kumpulan Al-Qaeda di negara yang dilanda krisis ini.
"Dan
kita tidak di atas jalan pada masa ini untuk memperuntukkan," katanya.
Menurut
Dempsey, jika pemberontak menggulingkan Presiden Syria, negara akan masih
berada dalam krisis.
"Jika
Assad mengambil keluarga dan semua para penyokong beliau berlalu Syria hari ini,
bagaimana negara itu . . . menyuarakan sendiri? " soal beliau.
Dempsey,
bersama-sama dengan pemimpin kanan tentera Amerika Syarikat termasuk Ketua
Turus Tentera Amerika Syarikat Ketua Raymond T. Odierno, ketika cuba untuk
menyediakan pilihan ketenteraan di Syria untuk Presiden Barack Obama, telah
secara terbuka mempersoalkan penghantaran tentera Amerika Syarikat di negara
konflik selepas pemberontak menggulingkan Assad.
"Saya
pernah mendengar ia digambarkan sebagai satu rangkaian konflik. Anda mem-punyai
konflik yang wujud; maka akan ada konflik yg ke-2, yang jenisnya konflik dalaman;
dan kemudian akan ada konflik yg ke-3 terhadap pertubuhan-pertubuhan pengganas
yang semakin meningkat," katanya. "Itu mungkin betul."
Sementara
itu, Amerika Syarikat masih terus menyediakan bantuan untuk pemberontak Syria.
Pada 5 Mei, pihak berkuasa Amerika Syarikat tawaran $ 27 juta dalam bantuan
tambahan untuk pemberontak. Juga pejabat Pembangkang Majlis Syria di Amerika
Syarikat tidak lama lagi akan menjadi misi diplomatik rasmi.
Pentadbiran
Obama berulang kali berkata konflik di Syria hanya boleh diselesaikan jika
Assad mengundurkan diri sebagai presiden. Pada bulan Mei seorang pegawai
pentadbiran kanan Amerika Syarikat mengecam pilihan raya yang akan datang Jun,
di mana Assad juga akan mengambil bahagian, sebagai "parodi demokrasi."
Menurut
Mark Seibel, ketua wartawan, akhbar McClatchy, Amerika Syarikat hanya
menda-lamkan keadaan krisis di Syria.
"Tidak
ada penyelesaian ketenteraan namun setiap langkah yang kita [Amerika Syarikat]
mengambil adalah satu langkah tentera dan begitu jelas apa yang kita telah
menubuhkan konflik jangka yang lebih lama, konflik yang banyak," katanya
kepada RT.
Brian
Becker, pengarah Gabungan Jawapan, memberitahu RT bahawa politik pentadbiran
Obama terhadap Syria hanya memburukkan keadaan di negara ini.
"Bantahan
bersenjata tidak menang di medan perang dan . . . tidak mempunyai asas popular
sokongan yang perlu untuk menggulingkan kerajaan Assad," katanya.
Syria
telah menjunam ke dalam perang saudara pada tahun 2011 apabila kebangkitan aman
terhadap Assad turun ke keganasan. Lebih daripada 150,000 orang terbunuh dan
berjuta-juta lagi pelarian dalam tempoh 3 tahun sejak mula berperang.
Masyarakat antarabangsa mencapai kemajuan yang ketara pada tahun 2013, apabila
Amerika Syarikat dan Rusia bersetuju bahawa Syria harus memusnahkan simpanan
kimia berikutan serangan di Damsyik pada 21 Ogos 2013.
Pertubuhan
bagi Larangan pasukan petugas Senjata Kimia - PBB disahkan pada Mei bahawa
sekurang-kurangnya 92 % peratus daripada stok penimbal senjata itu telah
dike-luarkan dari negara yang dilanda perang itu.
Rundingan
menghampiri akhir minggu yg ke-2 tanpa tanda kemajuan.
Pada
bulan Januari, Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat telah menganjurkan Geneva 2 rundingan
damai antara kerajaan Assad dan pembangkang Syria. Walau bagaimanapun, selepas 2
pusingan perundingan, tiada perjanjian dapat dicapai.
Tiada
tarikh belum ditetapkan untuk pusingan yg ke-3 rundingan, di mana kerajaan
Syria dan pembangkang dalam buangan telah bersetuju untuk membincangkan
meletakkan menamatkan keganasan, memerangi keganasan, dan pembentukan badan
kerajaan pera-lihan.
Setiausaha
Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry yang memenuhi British Minster Luar William
Hague di London berkata bahawa dia telah melihat data yang mencadangkan tentera
Syria telah menggunakan gas klorin terhadap rakyatnya sendiri, walaupun beliau
menegaskan bahawa data itu belum lagi disahkan.
"Saya
telah melihat data mentah yang mencadangkan, yang mungkin telah, Perancis sebagai cadangkan, beberapa contoh di mana klorin telah digunakan dalam menjalankan
perang," kata Kerry.
Beliau
juga berkata bahawa Amerika Syarikat dan sekutu-sekutunya telah bersetuju untuk
meningkatkan sokongan mereka kepada pembangkang Syria tetapi tidak menyatakan
jika yang dimaksudkan menyiapkannya.
Kerry
berkata beliau terbuka untuk meningkatkan bantuan kepada Syria tetapi berkata
bahawa tiada keputusan telah dibuat untuk mengubah strategi bantuan Amerika
Syarikat umum ke Syria.
US
says it will increase aid to Syrian rebels
US
Secretary of State John Kerry has said that the US and its allies will expand
their support to the Syrian opposition. Kerry’s comments come after a US
general said the Syrian rebels do not have the means to defeat President Assad.
US
Secretary of State John Kerry who was meeting British Foreign Minster William
Hague in London said the US and its allies had agreed to increase their support
to the Syrian opposition but did not specify if he meant arming them.
Kerry
said he was open to increasing aid to Syria but said that no decision has been
made on changing the general US aid strategy to Syria.
Syrian
rebels have no force capable of holding government to administer aid and wage
attacks against the current Assad regime, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Atlantic Council, a think tank in the
field of international affairs, in Washington, DC.
“They
need the force they have now, which is trying to protect local villages and try
to harass the regime and level the playing field. They need something that
eventually will be able to hold ground,” he said.
He
added that the militants who are currently fighting the Assad regime don’t have
any “counterterrorism capability” to completely eliminate the Al-Qaeda -linked
groups in the crisis-torn country.
"And
we're not on a path currently to provide that," he added.
According
to Dempsey, if rebels oust Syrian president, the country would still be in
crisis.
"If
Assad took his family and all of his cronies and departed Syria today, how does
that country ... articulate itself?" he asked.
Dempsey,
along with senior US military leaders including Chief of Staff of the US Army
General Raymond T. Odierno, while trying to prepare military options in Syria
for President Barack Obama, have publicly questioned the deployment of US
troops in the conflict country after the insurgents oust Assad.
“I’ve
heard it described as a succession of conflicts. You have the conflict that
currently exists; then there’ll be the second conflict, which is kind of an
internal conflict; and then there’ll be the third conflict against the
terrorist organizations that are growing,” he said. “That’s probably right.”
Meanwhile,
the US still continues to provide help for the Syrian insurgents. On May 5, US
authorities offered $27 million in additional help for the rebels. Also the
Syrian Opposition Council’s offices in the US will soon become formal
diplomatic missions.
Obama
administration repeatedly said conflict in Syria can only be solved if Assad
steps down as president. In May a senior US administration official denounced
the upcoming June elections, where Assad will also take part, as "a parody
of democracy.”
According
to Mark Seibel, chief of correspondents, McClatchy newspapers, US are only
deepening the crisis situation in Syria.
“There
can be no military solution and yet every step that we [US] are taking is a
military step and so obviously what we were setting up is a longer term
conflict, more conflict,” he told RT.
Brian
Becker, director of the Answer Coalition, told RT that politics of the Obama
administration towards Syria only worsened the situation in the country.
“Armed
opposition isn’t winning on the battlefield and . . . doesn’t have a popular
base of support necessary to oust the Assad government,” he added.
Syria
was plunged into civil war in 2011 when peaceful uprisings against Assad
descended into violence. More than 150,000 people have been killed and millions
more have been displaced in the three years since fighting began. The
international community made significant progress in 2013, when the US and
Russia agreed that Syria should destroy its chemical stockpile following an
attack in Damascus on August 21, 2013.
The
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-UN task force confirmed in
May that at least 92 percent of the weapons stockpile had been removed from the
war-torn nation.
The
negotiations neared the end of a second week with no sign of progress.
In
January, Russia and the US organized the Geneva 2 peace talks between Assad’s
government and the Syrian opposition. However, after two rounds of
negotiations, no agreement was reached. No date has been yet set for the third
round of negotiations, during which the Syrian government and the
opposition-in-exile have agreed to discuss putting an end to violence, fighting
terrorism, and the formation of a transitional government body.
US
Secretary of State John Kerry who was meeting British Foreign Minster William
Hague in London said that he has seen data that suggests the Syrian army has
used chlorine gas against its own people, although he stressed that the data
hasn’t yet been verified.
“I
have seen the raw data that suggests, that there may have been, as France
suggested, a number of instances in which chlorine has been used in the conduct
of war,” said Kerry.
He
also said that the US and its allies had agreed to increase their support to
the Syrian opposition but did not specify if he meant arming them.
Kerry
said he was open to increasing aid to Syria but said that no decision has been
made on changing the general US aid strategy to Syria.
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