Amin Gemayel Welcomes Iran’s 6-Point Plan to Settle Syrian Crisis

Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Qazanfar Roknabadi welcomed Tehran’s six-point plan to settle the crisis in Syria, and said Lebanon supports any political action to this end.

“We generally agree with any political move to solve the crisis in Syria”, including Iran’s six-point plan, Gemayel said in the meeting in Beirut on Wednesday.

He underlined the necessity for holding talks and finding a political solution to the problems in Syria, and said, “Continued crisis in Syria will have dangerous impacts on Lebanon and therefore, the country is necessitated to move towards stability and tranquility.”

On December 16, the Iranian foreign ministry explained about the contents of Tehran’s six-point plan for solving the problems in Syria, saying stop of violence and preventing foreign military intervention stand atop the proposal.

According to the foreign ministry, the first step is stopping violence and preventing military intervention of other countries in the Syrian issue.

The second step is preventing the shipment of weapons and holding national talks. Setting up a committee of the representatives of the Syrian people and government to reach an agreement on necessary reforms, taking steps to hold elections, reforming the Constitution as well as holding parliamentary and presidential elections are among the other moves demanded by the Iranian proposal.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, which is a staunch supporter of the establishment of security and stability in Syria, has practically made a series of moves in the same regard, including its recent call for ceasefire which was staged in Syria in October, and the holding of the Syrian National Dialogue conference in Tehran between the Syrian opposition and government in November.

Over 200 Syrian religious and political figures, leaders of tribes and parties as well as representatives and leaders of the opposition groups joined the two-day meeting in Tehran which kicked off on Sunday.

A number of Syrian parliament members as well as senior political figures from Sudan, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Brazil and Zimbabwe also took part in the meeting.