Assad rejects external solution for Syria crisis
Source: BBC
Syria's president has said he will not accept any solution to his country's crisis imposed from outside, as major powers prepare to meet in Geneva.
Bashar al-Assad told Iranian television it was an "internal issue which has nothing to do with foreign countries".
No amount of foreign pressure would make his government change its policy on internal security, he added.
Russia meanwhile insisted it would not endorse a plan for a transition that would require Mr Assad to step down.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "We will not support and cannot support any meddling from outside or any imposition of recipes. This also concerns the fate of the president of the country, Bashar al-Assad."
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18641177
Annan ‘Hopeful’ Over Geneva Talks on Syria
MOSCOW — As global powers prepared for an 11th hour effort to revive the stalled peace effort in Syria, Kofi Annan, the special envoy and mediator who called the meeting, said on Friday he was optimistic that that talks in Geneva would yield an acceptable result despite Russian calls for changes in his settlement ideas.
“I think we are going to have a good meeting” on Saturday, Mr. Annan told Reuters television in Geneva as senior officials held preparatory talks in advance of the weekend encounter of foreign ministers, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. “I am optimistic.”
The talks would end “with an acceptable result", he said, despite news reports suggesting that differences between Russia and other Western and Arab nations at the Geneva meeting had raised new obstacles to an agreement.
Mrs. Clinton is set to meet on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia with her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Lavrov said on Thursday that Syria needed a period of political transition but reiterated Moscow’s resistance to any plan being imposed by the international community.
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/world/europe/annan-hopeful-over-geneva-talks-on-syria.html?pagewanted=all
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Syrian forces kill terrorists in Douma suburb of the capital Damascus
Syrian forces have raided hideouts of armed groups fighting against the government in Damascus suburb of Douma, killing and wounding dozens of terrorists.
Many terrorists were also arrested in the military operation on Friday, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported, adding the terrorist-held buildings were destroyed during the clashes Torture chambers and field hospitals were discovered inside the buildings.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/29/248560/syrian-forces-kill-terrorists-in-douma/
They have to destroy the country...in order top save it
