MaliaJYy - Putin Penyerahan senjata kimia Syria
akan berfungsi hanya jika Amerika Syarikat panggilan hentikan serangan.
Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin berkata bahawa senjata kimia Syria penyerahan
hanya akan berfungsi jika Amerika Syarikat dan sekutu-sekutunya meninggalkan penggunaan
kekerasan terhadap Damsyik.
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“Sudah tentu, semua ini hanya
akan bermakna apa-apa jika Amerika Syarikat dan negara-negara lain yang
menyokong ia memberitahu kita bahawa mereka memberi pelan mereka untuk
menggunakan kekerasan terhadap Syria. Anda tidak boleh benar-benar meminta
Syria, atau mana-mana negara lain, untuk melucutkan senjata unilateral manakala
tindakan ketenteraan terhadap ia sedang dipertimbangkan , “kata Presiden Putin
pada hari Selasa.
Presiden Putin berkata bahawa
perkara yang membawa senjata kimia Syria di bawah kawalan antarabangsa telah
lama menjadi subjek perbincangan oleh pakar-pakar dan ahli politik.
Putin mengesahkan bahawa beliau
dan Presiden Barack Obama telah “sememangnya dibincangkan” apa-apa kemungkinan
di luar sidang kemuncak G20 di St Petersburg minggu lepas.
Ia telah dipersetujui, Putin
berkata, “untuk mengarahkan Setiausaha Negara [John Kerry] dan Menteri Luar
Negeri [Sergey Lavrov] untuk bekerja bersama-sama dan melihat jika mereka boleh
mencapai beberapa kemajuan dalam hal ini.”
Komen Presiden Putin datang
tidak lama selepas kerajaan Syria berkata ia akan bersetuju untuk meletakkan
senjata senjata kimia di bawah kawalan antarabangsa.
Pada hari Selasa, Britain,
Perancis dan Amerika Syarikat berkata mereka akan membentangkan satu resolusi
mengenai senjata kimia Syria kepada Majlis Keselamatan PBB di kemudian hari.
Satu mesyuarat tertutup
kecemasan di Majlis Keselamatan dijadualkan untuk mengambil tempat pada jam
4:00 pm EST (20:00 GMT), berkata pejabat akhbar PBB.
“Jika ini adalah satu cadangan
yang serius, maka kita perlu bertindak dengan sewajarnya dan saya fikir satu
resolusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB adalah idea yang baik,” kata Perdana Menteri
Britain, David Cameron.
Walau bagaimanapun, Amerika
Syarikat dan Perancis berkata mereka tidak akan menolak apa-apa reaksi yang
mungkin untuk menggunakan senjata kimia di Syria, Interfax dinamakan Istana
Elysee sebagai berkata dalam satu kenyataan.
Menurut agensi berita itu, “presiden
Perancis dan Amerika Syarikat mengulangi bahawa mereka akan memilih satu
penyelesaian diplomatik, tetapi mereka juga telah menyatakan kesanggupan untuk
mengekalkan mana-mana pilihan lain untuk meneutralkan senjata-senjata bahan
kimia Syria.”
Kementerian Luar Rusia akan
mencadangkan draf kenyataan oleh pengerusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB , yang
menyokong inisiatif untuk memindahkan senjata kimia Syria kepada kawalan
antarabangsa.
Isu ini telah dibincangkan
dalam perbualan telefon antara Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov dan rakan
sejawatannya dari Perancis itu, Laurent Fabius.
“[Lavrov] berkata bahawa Rusia,
di bahagian , adalah mengemukakan draf kenyataan untuk pengerusi Majlis
Keselamatan PBB itu , mengalu-alukan . . . inisiatif dan memanggil kepada
Setiausaha Agung PBB, Ketua Pengarah Pertubuhan bagi Larangan Senjata Kimia,
dan semua pihak yang berminat untuk membuat usaha-usaha untuk memudahkan
pelaksanaan cadangan ini,” menurut kenyataan kementerian itu.
Pada masa yang sama, Syria
berkata, ia adalah benar-benar bersedia untuk melepaskan senjata kimia dan
menandatangani Konvensyen Senjata Kimia.
“Kami bersedia untuk
menunjukkan laman dengan senjata kimia untuk wakil-wakil Rusia, serta
wakil-wakil dari negeri-negeri lain dan PBB,” Syria Menteri Luar Walid Muallem
memberitahu Lebanon berasaskan Al ‘Mayadeen TV.
Walaupun menyuarakan “beberapa
keraguan yang serius,” negara-negara Barat menyokong cadangan Rusia, menekankan
pentingnya Assad memenuhi perjanjian dan menyerahkan yang stok simpanan
senjata.
Britain berkata ia akan seperti
Rusia dan Syria untuk menunjukkan bahawa cadangan kepada Presiden Bashar Assad
adalah “serius dan tulen.”
Di Washington, White House
bergema kenyataan UK, berkata ia mahu mengesahkan bahawa Syria adalah serius
dalam hasratnya.
Terdahulu, kerajaan Perancis
berkata penyerahan senjata kimia Syria kepada kawalan antarabangsa perlu rapat
diteliti. Perancis berkata ia akan membentangkan draf resolusi kepada Majlis
Keselamatan PBB menyeru Syria untuk melepaskan stok simpanan daripada senjata
kimia, mengancam “amat serius” akibatnya jika Syria melanggar syarat-syaratnya.
Pentadbiran Obama, yang minggu
lalu telah tegas mendesak campur tangan tentera berikutan Aug. 21 serangan
senjata kimia, kini telah berubah kedudukannya.
Sebagai tindak balas kepada
cadangan Rusia, Obama berkata beliau bersedia untuk “benar-benar” meletakkan menghentikan
serangan tentera ke atas Syria jika Assad menerima tawaran itu.
Senat Amerika Syarikat pada
mulanya dijadualkan untuk mengundi sama ada untuk membenarkan “tindakan
ketenteraan yang terhad,” tetapi Senat Demokrat pembantu kepimpinan berkata ia
kini tidak diketahui jika Senat akan mengundi minggu ini di Syria.
“Kami mahu memberi presiden
peluang untuk membuat kesnya,” pembantu itu sambil menambah bahawa selepas ucapan
Presiden Obama malam Selasa, pemimpin Senat akan mengkaji semula keadaan.
Putin:
Syria Chem Arms handover will Work
Only if US Calls Off Strike . . .
Russian President Vladimir
Putin said that Syria’s chemical arms handover will only work if the US and its
allies renounce the use of force against Damascus.
"Of course, all of this
will only mean anything if the United States and other nations supporting it
tell us that they're giving up their plan to use force against Syria. You can’t
really ask Syria, or any other country, to disarm unilaterally while military
action against it is being contemplated," President Putin said on Tuesday.
President Putin said that the
matter of bringing Syria’s chemical weapons under international control has
long been a subject of discussion by experts and politicians.
Putin confirmed that he and
President Barack Obama had “indeed discussed” such a possibility on the
sidelines of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg last week.
It was agreed, Putin said, “to
instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov]
to work together and see if they can achieve some progress in this
regard."
President Putin’s comments came
shortly after the Syrian government said it would agree to place its chemical
weapons arsenal under international control.
On Tuesday, Britain, France and
the US said they would table a resolution on Syrian chemical weapons to the UN
Security Council later in the day.
An emergency closed-door
meeting at the Security Council is scheduled to take place at 4:00pm EST (20:00
GMT), the UN press office said.
"If this is a serious
proposal, then we should act accordingly and I think a UN Security Council
resolution is a good idea," British Prime Minister David Cameron said.
However, the US and France said
they would not rule out any possible reaction to the use of chemical weapons in
Syria, Interfax cited the Elysee Palace as saying in a statement.
According to the news agency,
“the presidents of France and the US reiterated that they would prefer a
diplomatic solution, but they have also expressed willingness to retain any
other options to neutralize the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal.”
Russia’s Foreign Ministry will
propose a draft statement by the chairman of the UN Security Council,
supporting the initiative to transfer Syria’s chemical weapons to international
control.
The issue was discussed during
a phone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his
French counterpart, Laurent Fabius.
“[Lavrov] said that Russia, on
its part, is submitting a draft statement for the UN Security Council’s
chairman, welcoming the… initiative and calling on the UN Secretary General,
the general director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, and all the interested parties to make efforts to facilitate the
implementation of this proposal,” the ministry’s statement said.
At the same time, Syria said it
was ready to completely give up chemical weapons and sign the Chemical Weapons
Convention.
“We are ready to show sites
with chemical arsenals to Russia’s representatives, as well as representatives
of other states and the UN,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told
Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV.
Despite voicing “some serious
skepticism,” Western countries supported Russia's proposal, stressing the
importance of Assad fulfilling the agreement and surrendering the weapons
stockpiles.
Britain said it would like
Russia and Syria to show that the proposal to President Bashar Assad is
“serious and genuine.”
In Washington, the White House
echoed the UK statement, saying it wanted to verify that Syria was serious in
its intentions.
Earlier, the French government
said that the handover of Syria’s chemical weapons to international control
should be closely scrutinized. France said it would table a draft resolution to
the UN Security Council calling on Syria to give up its stockpiles of chemical
arms, threatening "extremely serious" consequences if Syria violates
its conditions.
Obama’s administration, which
last week was firmly insisting on military intervention following the Aug.21
chemical weapons attack, has now changed its position.
In response to Russia’s
proposal, Obama said he was willing to “absolutely” put on pause a military
strike on Syria if Assad accepts the offer.
The US Senate was initially
scheduled to vote on whether to authorize “limited military actions,” but a
Senate Democratic leadership aide said it was now not known if the Senate would
vote this week on Syria.
"We want to give the
president a chance to make his case," the aide said, adding that following
President Obama’s speech Tuesday night, Senate leaders would review the
situation.