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Fresh Arab calls for peacekeepers in Syria to further fuel violence
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-02-13 04:28

Syrian analysts and observers believed that the recent Arab League's (AL) resolution to dispatch joint Arab-foreign peacekeepers to Syria would further inflame the already-simmering violence in the unrest-torn country.

Loai Hussain, head of the opposition "Building Syria State Party," regarded the calls as "illogical and unrealistic." He told Xinhua that such attempts won't be conducive in solving the Syrian crisis, but rather to escalate it and push it towards a civil conflict.

According to a resolution adopted by Arab foreign ministers on Sunday in Egypt's capital Cairo, the AL called on the United Nations to form a joint UN-AL peacekeeping force for Syria. They also decided to tighten economic sanctions on Damascus and called on Arab countries to stop all diplomatic cooperation with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

The regional bloc also proposed holding an international conference for the so-called "Syrian friends," and decided to end the Arab observing mission in violence-hit Syria and provide relief for Syrian refugees.

Hamdi Abdullah, a political analyst, said "Arabs know that what they call for is impossible," adding that "they can't pass such resolution through the Security Council because Russia has expressed its firm rejection to any attempt of allowing foreign intervention in Syria.

"They are exerting their utmost efforts to escalate the violence by such stances," Abdullah added.

As for the observer mission, Abdullah told Xinhua that "during the observers' existence in Syria, the government honored its part of the deal and stopped using force in dealing with armed groups, which allowed those groups to reposition and move easily."

He said "now that the observers' mission has ended, the government has the right to conduct its duty to restore stability and security to the country."

Another political analyst, Ahmad al-Hajj, told Xinhua that Arabs' new proposal is "illegitimate and ill-mannered." He said the Arabs' latest move has a "colonial tone in Arabic wording."

"There will be no chance of success for this proposal," he said, suggesting that "any resolution should take in account the sovereignty and the real interest of the country."

"They (Arabs) neither want dialogue nor want to help," he said, adding that "they are working to aggravate the situation and call for foreign intervention in Syria."

Meanwhile, Qadri Jammil, head of the opposing Popular Front for Change and Liberation and leader of a Syrian Communist Party, stressed that the move is "unwarranted and inapplicable."

He told Xinhua that the move is a "political escalation to justify foreign intervention and thus to fuel terrorist attacks."

The AL has exerted many efforts to bring the Syrian crisis to a close. It put forward a plan that Damascus agreed upon in December of last year, and dispatched monitors to check Syria's compliance. But it decided later to suspend the observers' mission, citing the escalating violence across Syria.

On Jan. 23, The AL asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy and to set up a national unity government within two months.

The pan-Arab body took its initiative to United Nations to gain support, but their attempt was flatten by a double-veto form Russia and China.

The Syrian government has blamed the unrest in Syria on plots by terrorists and foreign-backed armed gangs, and said that more than 2,000 army and security personnel were killed during the past months. The United Nations put the death toll in the Syrian unrest at more than 5,400.

Source:Xinhua 
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