Qatari PM Wants 'All Options' Explored in Syria
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said Thursday the time had come to "study all options" in seeking a way out of the Syrian crisis.
"We have to study all options to save the Syrian people," Al-Thani said after meeting European Parliament head Martin Schulz.
The Qatari premier is in favor of sending an international peacekeeping force to Syria, with an Arab "core," and on Monday said he backed delivering arms to the Syrian opposition.
However, he denied any Qatari troops were on the ground in Syria. "That's not true at all," he said.
Schulz hailed Qatar for playing a "constructive" role in the crisis.
More than 7,600 people have been killed in violence across Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in March 2011, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
01 March 2012, 19:45
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There are in fact no Qatari troops anywhere in the world. The Qatari army is made up of Uruguayan officers, Swedish NCO's, and Bangla-deshi enlisted personnel. The Qatari Minister of Defense is the deputy Prime Minister of the UK, Mr. Warrant Ollingpham. The head of the Qatari Military-Industrial Complex (QMIC) is Ms. Alice Wellworth, the junior US Senator from South Bronx.
The Qatari Prime Minister was speaking metaphorically. He went on to say that, after the freedom fighters finish their work in Syria, they are more than welcome to come to Qatar, provided their documents are in order.
01 March 2012, 19:47
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There is some talk in Doha of changing the name of the ruling family from "the second" to "the first".
