Like the (mis)reporting in all the Australian msm, the stories in the Fairfax
Sydney Morning Herald, linked to below, fail to report anywhere the Foreign Minister's insistence that the Syrian people, and
not the Geneva 2 Conference attendees, decide at an election whether or not Bashar al-Assad remain as President of Syria:
Syria's Foreign Minister clashes with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at peace conference,
Fiery exchanges over Assad's fate at talks,
Syrian peace talks degenerate into acrimony,
After angry opening, Syrian regime holds out hope for talks,
Syria to allow women and children to leave besieged city.
In his opening address to the Geneva 2 Peace conference on 22 January 2014, published by SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moallem gave a comprehensive account of the terrorist war of aggression that has, according to some estimates, cost Syria 100,000 lives in almost three years since March 2011. His speech named other conference attendees, including the United States, Israel and the Arab dictatorships of Qatar and Saudi Arabia as the principle perpetrators of these crimes. This speech was also published on Global Research on 22 Jan 2013.
The address by Secretary of State, John Kerry, which contains a number of known falsehoods, is also included as an Appendix for comparison with Walid Moallem's speech. The original can be found on the U.S. Secretary of State's web-site.
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Update, 27 Jan 2014: Debate about Geneva 2 Conference from TARPLEY.net embedded as Appendix 3.
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