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DAMASCUS, May 22 -- Recent world assurances that there would be nomilitary intervention in Syria, coupled with consensual statementsby UN officials and observers about the performance of the Syriangovernment, has to some extent raised optimism that Syria will notbe caught in a similar Libyan scenario. After nearly 15 months of unrest across the country and worldwidevitriolic criticism of the government's crackdown on protesters, aswell as calls on the Syrian President Bashar al- Assad to stepdown, there has been recently a noticeable leniency and to someextent a shift in the superpowers' stands. In a joint statement issued recently, the G8 leaders said "TheSyrian government and all parties must immediately and fully adhereto commitments to implement the six-point plan of UN and ArabLeague Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan." U.S. President Barack Obama has also said the only solution to thelingering problem in Syria is for the Syrian government to commititself to Annan's plan. For his side, The U.S. ambassador to NATO said the alliance has noplans for military intervention in the Syrian crisis. Ivo Daaldertold reporters late Sunday there is "no planning going on that'srelated to a NATO role in Syria." Meanwhile, UN Under-Secretary-General Herve Ladsous, who is on acurrent visit to Syria, warned Monday that there is in Syria athird party that try to capitalize on the current situation toachieve certain gains. He said the violence in the country has not ceased "but clearly itdiminishes." He however urged the Syrian government to take someconfidence-building measures by giving access to prisoners andallow peaceful demonstration. There are now in Syria some 270 UN military observers monitoringthe cease-fire that has gone into effect on April 12. The head of the UN observers' mission in Syria, Maj. Gen. RobertMood, has praised the Syrian government, saying it is a "professional government ... it met you with hospitality andrespect." "I am sending back Mr. Ladsous back to New York with a differentunderstanding of what Syria is about than what he reads in theheadlines in the media," he said, noting that foreign media isgiving different picture about what is really happening in Syria. Al-Sabah, an Iraqi newspaper said Monday that there are ongoingIraqi efforts to host a conference in Iraq to deal with the Syriancrisis and which will combine all conflicting parties. The paper, quoting senior Iraqi officials, said the conferencewould be held under the auspices of the Arab League and the UnitedNations. It said that Iraqi initiative would be very similar to theGulf plan in Yemen and would call for a government of nationalunity that represents all components of the Syrian people, to befollowed by a Security Council resolution banning interference inthe internal affairs of the Syrians. The Iraqi initiative would propose that all parties should stick toan immediate cease-fire and demand from regional and internationalparties to stop arming both sides, before entering into directnegotiations in Syria. Observers in Syria believe that the softened tone stems frommounting fears that violence in Syria would spill over toneighboring countries, and recent fighting in Tripoli in Lebanonbetween pro- and anti-Assad Lebanese has further stoked thosefears. They attribute this moderate position to a set of interlockinginternal and external factors, mainly the fact that Obama, beforenearly five months of the presidential elections, is not ready fora new military adventure, neither in Syria nor in Iran. So theAmerican position on Syria is characterized by a "reservation." NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in a press conference during aNATO summit in Chicago on Thursday, raised concern about theviolence in Syria, but stressed that the alliance has "nointention" of any military action against the Syrianadministration. According to European media reports, there are other factors behindthe decision of the alliance, including the need to take intoaccount the attitude of Russia, Syria's close ally, in many basicfiles: mainly the withdrawal of troops operating in Afghanistan,and the Iranian nuclear file. While UN's Ban Ki-moon said Monday that the process of seeking apeaceful settlement to the crisis in Syria reached a "delicatestage," expressing concerns over a potential eruption of a civilwar in Syria, regional observers show optimistic view, contendingthat the Syrian crisis will soon come to an end as the oppositionwould soon realize that they would be no longer able to weather thestorm alone after being abandoned by those who had at the beginningprovoked it. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Cooling Water Treatment Chemicals , Swimming Pool Water Treatment Chemicals for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Cooling Tower Water Treatment Chemicals.
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