Jubeir made the statement on Thursday, while Syrian opposition leaders discussed forming a unified front before proposed peace talks with Assad's government in Vienna.
The Saudi foreign minister also said he hoped that the Syrian opposition could come up with a common vision for Syria during the meeting. He urged delegates to prove wrong those who argue that the Syrian opposition is too fragmented to present a unified front at future peace talks.
Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition figures in Riyadh have also agreed to set up a body including political and armed factions to lead preparations for the talks with the Syrian government.
They have chosen a new secretary-general and a new spokesperson, as well as the formation of a supreme commission for negotiation that comprised 23 members.
Monzer Akbik of the Syrian National Coalition, speaking from Dubai where he was in contact with delegates in Saudi Arabia, said the group would include six from the coalition in exile, six from rebel factions, five from a Damascus-based opposition group and eight independent figures.
"They are going to be the decision-makers in terms of the political settlement," Akbik told Reuters news agency, adding that a separate negotiating team of 15 members would also be appointed.
Marwan Kabalan, a Syrian political analyst, told Al Jazeera that the two-day summit in Riyadh is very significant because most of the GCC states are either directly or indirectly involved in the Syrian conflict.
He also said that the Syrian opposition "are closer to a united political vision for roadmap to peace in Syria."
The GCC has endorsed a political solution for the Syria conflict, under an international framework agreed to last month.
The Gulf states said they back the Vienna agreement, which was made last month and set a January 1 target for peace talks and would see a transitional government set up in six months and elections in 18 months.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
10/12/15
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Syrie: l'un des principaux groupes rebelles se retire de la réunion à Ryad...
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La conférence de Ryad, qui a rassemblé une centaine de représentants de l'opposition politique et armée syrienne, visait à unifier les rangs de cette opposition en vue d'éventuels pourparlers pour mettre fin à un conflit qui a fait depuis mars 2011 plus de 250.000 morts et poussé à l'exode des millions de personnes.
Les participants se sont dits "prêts à entrer dans des négociations avec des représentants du régime syrien sur la base de la déclaration de Genève-1 (30 juin 2012) et des résolutions internationales pertinentes (...) dans un délai à convenir avec l'ONU", selon leur communiqué final publié après deux jours de discussions.
Les délégués ont toutefois réclamé que "Bachar (al-Assad) et sa clique se retirent du pouvoir avec le début de la période de transition" politique en Syrie........rtl.be
Iran said on Thursday groups linked to Islamic State were involved in talks on forming a delegation for negotiations on the future of Syria, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported...
ReplyDeleteDelegates from Syrian opposition and rebel groups agreed in Riyadh on Thursday to bring together political and armed factions in a single body in preparation for possible peace talks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Iran is a crucial ally of Assad in Syria's four-year-old civil war.
"Some of the terrorist groups linked to Islamic State are involved in the (Riyadh) talks ... these terrorist groups will not be allowed to decide Syria's future," Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said, according to Fars.
Shi'ite Muslim Iran, an arch-rival of the Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has repeatedly said the Riyadh meeting will cause the failure of negotiations intended to end the Syrian war.
The Vienna process envisages formal talks between the Syrian government and the opposition by January.
"We do not approve the Riyadh meeting ... It is not in line with the Vienna talks," Amirabdollahian said.
REUTERS