SBY hopes Syria president resigns
Kompas.com - 07/01/
2013, 17:24 WIB
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BOGOR, KOMPAS.com - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hopes that Bashar al-Assad will be willing to step down as President of Syria. Basrah's resignation was judged to be able to stop the growth of blood and conflict in Syria.
"It is expected that there will be one process of political transition so that other leaders are born that can be accepted by the Syrian people and love their people," said Presidential Spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha after a meeting between the President and the clerics at the Bogor Palace, West Java, Monday (7/1/2013).
The scholars present, namely Shaykh Muhammad Ali Ash-Shobuni (Syria), Ahmad Mujahid Bin Muhammad Ali Ash-Shobuni (Saudi Arabia), H. Kechik (Malaysia), H. Salin Hasan Barakwan (Indonesia), Nopel Abdullah Al-Kaff (Indonesia), Abbas (Indonesia), and Ustadz Kamal Hasan (Indonesia).
Julian said, if there is no political transition, President Yudhoyono fears Syria will be destroyed. In fact, Syria is one of the centers of Islamic civilization in the world. The president also hopes that humanitarian aid to Syria continues to be carried out, even to be improved.
“The president has spoken to the UN Secretary-General, has spoken also with the Turkish Prime Minister, the President of Iran, and the leader of Pakistan to find the best solution to save Syria from the present conditions, stop the conflict there and restore Syria.
We are also interested in safeguarding the highly developed and old Islamic civilization there," Julian said.
As reported, UN data, the Syrian conflict has reportedly killed more than 60,000 people since violence emerged in March 2011. The death toll was much higher than the latest estimate reported by President Bashar al-Assad's anti-regime human rights activist, who called 45,000 dead.
The hope to find a peaceful solution in Syria is getting thinner after the talks of U.N. and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Bramini, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergie Lavtrov, in Russia in late December 2012 ended without a sign of meaningful progress.
Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono berharap agar Bashar al-Assad bersedia mundur sebagai Presiden Suriah untuk hentikan pertumpahan darah.
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