Assad May Task Jumblat with Mediating with Turkey

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Thursday’s meeting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat did not focus on the issue of Lebanon’s cabinet formation process, but rather at the possibility of tasking the Druze leader with “mediating between Syria and Turkey,” whose once warm relations have grown colder over Damascus’ violent crackdown on protesters, MTV reported Friday.

Meanwhile, OTV reported that Assad told Jumblat that “Syria has overcome the dangerous phase and that it has started to contain the situation caused by the conspiracy plotted by some major world powers and Arab states.”

He also told him that there is a “plot to separate him from Hizbullah,” but stressed that “the relation with the Resistance stems from a deeply-rooted conviction and that he will hold on to it until the end,” according to OTV.

The TV network also reported that Jumblat has dispatched envoys to meet with President Michel Suleiman, Premier-designate Najib Miqati and Speaker Nabih Berri, with the aim of briefing them on his meeting with Assad.

On Thursday, Jumblat held talks with Assad in Damascus, in the presence of caretaker Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi.

During the meeting, Jumblat “voiced his hope that Syria will be able to overcome this critical period in its history through endorsing the reforms launched by President Assad,” according to a statement issued by the PSP following the Druze leader’s return to Beirut.

For his part, Assad hoped during the talks that the Lebanese would succeed in overcoming their disputes and form a new government soon “for the country’s greater good,” Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported.

Comments 9
Default-user-icon MUSTAPHA O. GHALAYINI (Guest) 10 June 2011, 21:41

why will it be different from paris and doha?turkish military intervention in syria under nato umbrella is under serious preparations.

Default-user-icon simon (Guest) 10 June 2011, 21:46

How can this Guy mediate for a dictator and killer....

Default-user-icon ooo (Guest) 10 June 2011, 23:19

Conspiracy plotted by some major world powers and Arab states, including Turkey, Qatar and the Vatican.

Default-user-icon MUSTAPHA O. GHALAYINI (Guest) 11 June 2011, 00:04

he sent him to paris,then doha, now turkey???

Default-user-icon Butterball (Guest) 11 June 2011, 00:05

It is my experience that when mediating one brings cake or chocolate even doughnuts but never turkey.

Default-user-icon John Holmes (Guest) 11 June 2011, 07:32

Akh ya jumblatt bahdaltna...roo7 ta3 23od w2af....you're like a marionette...a total slave to this ruthless dictator who is going down sooner or later...you're not Lebanese at all but rather a so called politician for hire. Stay there and don't come back.

Missing urotherside 11 June 2011, 09:31

yalla Turkey misses the days when it was the ottoman empire and ruled people in Syria and Lebanon. Seems they are getting their chance again and they want to jump on it.

Default-user-icon Le Phenicien (Guest) 11 June 2011, 10:01

At the end of the day , the Turks will stay in Turkey and the Syrians in Syria .

Bashar will soon finish with these Sunni Salafi Wahhaby terrorists after killing the last one of them , even if he has to kill hundreds of thousands ... He will be doing a great service for the West in getting rid of terrorism ..

Syria - USA = same battle today and the same Arab Saudi Sunni Salafi Wahhaby ennemy .

Default-user-icon le fini is a pro assad genius (Guest) 11 June 2011, 13:18

God bless Le fini he's correct, the magnificent Syrian regime has as much the right to kill the Salafis terrorist in fact it's the same right it had killing the Christians in Lebanon it's even using the same rhetoric. Everyone remembers when it massacred the Lebanese army soldiers and civilians on October 13 1990 it was legitimately doing the west and the American in particular a favor.