Gulf States and Turkey Hold Meeting in Istanbul to Continue Conspiring
against Syria
Jan 29, 2012
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2012/01/29/397165.htm

DAMASCUS, (SANA - Syrian news agency)- Days after intelligence reports
revealed that intelligence crews from some Gulf states, Turkey, the US,
France and Israel have been supervising camps for gathering, recruiting and
training mercenaries and terrorists inside the Turkish territories, Turkey
and Gulf states on Saturday held a meeting in Istanbul to discuss activities
of their terrorist groups operating in Syria.

The first results of this Gulf-Turkish meeting came with announcing a new
escalatory step against Syria represented in the decision of the Arab League
(AL) Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi to suspend the monitoring mission in
Syria, ignoring the AL Council's decision last week to extend the mission
for another month.

The decision to suspend the monitoring mission came to confirm that Arab
countries, on top being the Gulf states, are continuing their support to the
acts of the armed terrorist groups in Syria.

Today's Istanbul meeting came as a new episode in the series of conspiring
between the Gulf states and the Turkish government against Syria, which was
proved through the simultaneous imposition of sanctions allegedly aimed
against the Syrian government, while experts and analysts as well as a
number of Arabs and Turks consider that the bad impacts of these sanctions
affect the Syrian people and also reach the people of Arab countries and
Turkey.

Observers see that the Gulf-Turkish conspiring against Syria appeared
evident through the attendance of senior Turkish diplomat at the Arab
Foreign Ministers Council meetings at which all decisions against Syria were
made.

These decisions started with freezing Syria's membership at the Arab League
and continued through working to internationalize the Syrian crisis in
implementation of foreign agendas exposed by the statements of the U.S.
diplomat Jennifer Rasamimanana who described the League's decisions as
having positive impact on the U.S. efforts to take the Syrian crisis file to
the UN Security Council and pressure Russia to change its stance.

Information and data indicate that Istanbul meeting held today came to
discuss the ways to continue the exposed Gulf-Turkish conspiring against
Syria after Russia stressed its objection at the Security Council to the
Arab Ministerial Council's plan led by Qatar and Saudi Arabia and ordered by
the US and Israel.

Two days ago, the Israeli War Minister Ehud Barak stated that the Arab
League's latest decisions against Syria are consistent with the Israeli
vision and that the League and the Arab leaders are working in line with the
Israeli approach against Syria.

Analysts and observers place Istanbul meeting in the framework of a new
campaign to pressure Syria led by Gulf and foreign countries and Turkey that
are now distributing roles among themselves after the doors were closed
before them from inside by the Syrian people and were beleaguered by the
Russian stance at the Security Council.

H. Said