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Syrian Minister: Gov’t Open to Talks with Opposition Groups

Syrian Minister of National Reconciliation Ali Haidar underlined that the Damascus government is fully ready to hold national talks with armed and unarmed opposition groups to settle the crisis gripping the country for the last several months.

“We have announced since long ago that the doors of the government (offices) and the national reconciliation ministry are open to all dissidents and opposition streams and groups and we are ready to hold any kind of negotiation and talks at the national level,” Haidar told FNA.

“We stretch our hands to all streams and anyone who favors talks, whether they are armed or unarmed,” he added.

His remarks came after Syrian opposition figures and politicians reached a consensus over the necessity of talks as the only way to settle the crisis in the Arab country, and urged an immediate stop to the terrorist attacks masterminded by certain foreign states against the Syrian people.

“The best solution to the Syrian crisis is sitting at the negotiations table,” Head of Syria’s National Youth for Justice and Development Parvin Ebrahim told FNA on Tuesday.

Also member of Syria’s Tribes Party Tariq Ahmad and Spokesman of the Popular Front for Change and Freedom Adel Naeesah reiterated the necessity for continued meetings among the Syrian opposition leaders in a move to harness violence in the country.

“Undoubtedly, the noise of the blasts will never allow different sides hear each other’s voices for negotiations and talks, therefore the first precondition is stopping the violence,” Naeesah told FNA.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

In October, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of stirring unrests in Syria once again.

The US and its western and regional allies have long sought to topple Assad and his ruling system. Media reports said that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.

The US daily, Washington Post, reported in May that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups battling the President Bashar al-Assad’s government have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.

The newspaper, quoting opposition activists and US and foreign officials, reported that Obama administration officials emphasized the administration has expanded contacts with opposition military forces to provide the Persian Gulf nations with assessments of rebel credibility and command-and-control infrastructure.

Opposition activists who several months ago said the rebels were running out of ammunition said in May that the flow of weapons – most bought on the black market in neighboring countries or from elements of the Syrian military in the past – has significantly increased after a decision by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Persian Gulf states to provide millions of dollars in funding each month.

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