Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry (US secretary of State John Kerry (AFP Photo/Alastair
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General KNOWLEDGE's - Kerry memberikan Syria 7 hari untuk melepaskan
senjata kimia. Setiausaha Negara John Kerry mengatakan hari Isnin bahawa
Presiden Syria Bashar Al ‘Assad mempunyai 1 minggu untuk melepaskan senjata
terhadap senjata kimia atau lain menjadi sasaran serangan tentera Amerika
Syarikat.
Menjawab kepada pemberita pada sidang akhbar di
London awal Isnin, Encik Kerry ditawarkan kata yang memerlukan pemimpin Syria
untuk menyerahkan apa sahaja yang kekal bahan kimia dilaporkan simpanan senjata
untuk mengelakkan serangan dari Amerika Syarikat.
“Pasti, dia boleh berubah atas setiap bit tunggal
senjata kimia kepada masyarakat antarabangsa pada minggu depan - menjadikan ia banyak,
semua itu tanpa berlengah-lengah dan membenarkan perakaunan penuh dan jumlahnya,
tetapi dia kira-kira tidak untuk melakukannya dan ia tidak boleh dilakukan, “kata
Kerry pada sidang akhbar itu.
Menurut Reuters, Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat
berkata Kerry telah membuat hujah yang retorik. Sebagai penggubal undang-undang
di Washington bersedia untuk menimbang dalam sama ada atau tidak membenarkan
penggunaan kuasa tentera terhadap Assad, bagaimanapun, serangan Amerika
Syarikat ke atas kerajaan Assad kekal kemungkinan yang amat nyata.
White House dan ahli-ahli berpangkat tinggi Kongres
sama telah berkali-kali menggesa ahli-ahli politik Amerika untuk ‘sign-off’
pada serangan bertujuan untuk teguran Assad untuk kegunaan yang didakwa beliau
senjata kimia di luar Damsyik pada 21 Ogos. Pegawai-pegawai Amerika Syarikat
berkata lebih daripada 1,400 orang Syria telah diserang dgn gas beracun kepada
kematian semasa serangan itu, walaupun Pres. Assad masih berkeras bahawa dia
tidak bertanggungjawab.
Presiden Barack Obama dan Encik Kerry berkata mereka
mahu serangan tentera terhad terhadap Assad untuk menunjukkan bahawa Amerika
Syarikat tidak akan bertolak ansur dengan penggunaan senjata kimia terhadap
orang awam. Setiausaha negeri dijangka memberi taklimat kepada Kongres pada
hari Isnin selepas pulang dari UK, dan Pres. Obama akan menangani negara itu
dalam satu kenyataan di televisyen petang berikutnya.
Sebelum meninggalkan London, Sec. Kerry berkata, “Kami
akan dapat memegang Bashar Al ‘Assad bertanggungjawab tanpa melibatkan diri
dalam tentera di atas darat atau apa-apa jenis lain yang berpanjangan usaha
dalam sangat disasarkan, sangat usaha jangka pendek yang sangat terhad yang
mempersendakan keupayaannya untuk menyampaikan senjata kimia tanpa menganggap
tanggungjawab untuk perang saudara di Syria.”
Di tengah-tengah kebimbangan bahawa campur tangan
dalam konflik dalaman akan melancarkan Amerika Syarikat ke perang yang lain, Kerry
menambah bahawa White House tidak mahu lebih daripada “jenis kecil unbelievably,
terhad usaha.” Di luar Washington, walaupun, penggunaan kuasa tentera kekal
sebahagian besarnya yang tidak diingini.
Menurut keputusan pungutan suara CNN dijalankan pada
hujung minggu, 59% peratus rakyat Amerika berkata mereka menentang serangan
ketenteraan di Syria, dan hampir 3 merangkak daripada mereka yang ditinjau
berkata serangan udara tidak akan mencapai “matlamat penting” untuk Amerika
Syarikat.
Sementara itu, penyokong campur tangan mengatakan
mereka adalah lebih pasti berbanding sebelum ini yang diluluskan Assad serangan
bulan lalu. Kerry mendakwa bahawa seluruh masyarakat perisikan Amerika Syarikat
kini percaya Assad mengarahkan serangan senjata kimia, dan berkata, hanya 3
orang - Assad, salah satu daripada saudara-saudaranya dan senior general - yang
bertanggungjawab.
Assad memberitahu CBS News pada hari Ahad bahawa
Amerika harus “mengharapkan setiap tindakan” jika serangan diperintahkan di Washington.
Keesokan harinya, Kerry berkata Presiden Syria , “Ini adalah seorang lelaki
tanpa kredibiliti.”
Kenyataan Kerry di London yang dibuat dalam penampilan
bersama dengan William Hague, Menteri Luar British. “Kerajaan kami menyokong
objektif untuk memastikan bahawa tidak ada sewenang-wenangnya untuk kegunaan
pertama peperangan kimia pada abad ke-21,” kata Encik Hague semasa presser itu “Sebagai
masyarakat antarabangsa, kita mesti menghalang serangan lagi dan memegang
mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk mereka yang bertanggungjawab.”
Kerry
gives Syria One Week to Relinquish Chemical Weapons
Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad has one week to give up his arsenal of chemical
weapons or else become the target of a US military strike.
Answering to a reporter during a press conference in
London early Monday, Mr. Kerry offered an ultimatum which would require the
Syrian leader to turn over whatever remains of a reported chemical weapons
stockpile in order to avoid an attack from the United States.
"Sure, he could turn over every single bit of
his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week - turn it
over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting, but he
isn't about to do it and it can't be done," Kerry said at the press
conference.
According to Reuters, the US State Department said
Kerry was making a rhetorical argument. As lawmakers in Washington ready to
weigh in on whether or not to authorize the use of military force against
Assad, however, an American-led attack on Assad’s government remains a very
real possibility.
The White House and high-ranking members of Congress
alike have repeatedly urged American politicians to sign-off on a strike meant
to reprimand Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons outside of Damascus
on August 21. US officials say more than 1,400 Syrians were gassed to death
during that assault, though Pres. Assad remains adamant that he was not
responsible.
President Barack Obama and Mr. Kerry said they want
a limited military strike against Assad in order to demonstrate that the US
will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons against civilians. The secretary
of state is expected to brief members of Congress on Monday after returning
from the UK, and Pres. Obama will address the nation in a televised statement
the following evening.
Before leaving London, Sec. Kerry said, “We will be
able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the
ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted,
very short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons
without assuming responsibility for Syria’s civil war.”
Amid concerns that intervening in that internal
conflict will launch the US into another war, Kerry added that the White House
wants nothing more than an “unbelievably small, limited kind of effort.”
Outside of Washington, though, the use of military force remains largely
unwanted. According to the results of a CNN poll conducted over the weekend, 59
percent of Americans said they are against a military strike on Syria, and
nearly three-fours of those surveyed said airstrikes would not achieve
“significant goals” for the US.
Meanwhile, proponents of intervention say they are
more certain than ever that Assad approved last month’s assault. Kerry claimed
that the entire US intelligence community now believes Assad ordered the
chemical weapons attack, and said only three people - Assad, one of his
brothers and a senior general - are responsible.
Assad told CBS News on Sunday that America should
“expect every action” if a strike is ordered in Washington. The next day, Kerry
said of the Syrian president, “This is a man without credibility.”
Kerry’s remarks in London were made during a joint
appearance with William Hague, the British foreign secretary. “Our government
supports the objective of ensuring that there can be no impunity for the first
use of chemical warfare in the 21st century,” Mr. Hague said during the presser
“As an international community we must deter further attacks and hold those
responsible for them accountable.”
