Jumblat Warns Spiritual Leaders against Slack Syria Statement
Sources close to Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat warned spiritual leaders that are set to meet in Bkirki on Sunday against not stressing an end to the violent crackdown of the Syrian regime on protestors.
The sources said that the Muslim and Christian spiritual leaders should take a clear stance from the Syrian crisis and stress the need for a political solution based on an Arab League plan for President Bashar Assad to transfer power to his deputy.
They also said the final statement of the Bkirki meeting should call for “an end to the violence committed by the regime” that according to the Syrian opposition has so far claimed more than 9,100 lives.
The conferees should not fall in the trap of holding both the regime and the armed opposition responsible for the violence in Syria, Jumblat’s sources warned.
“Any such stance would be totally rejected and severally criticized,” they said.
Jumblat has severally criticized the Syrian regime on its brutal crackdown. He urged Moscow during the Socialist International Special Committee on the Arab World conference held in Istanbul to help rid the Syrian people of Assad and his family.
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