وزير خارجية تركيا ينفي دعم أنقرة للمعارضة السورية المسلحة

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أعلن أحمد داود أوغلو، وزير الخارجية التركي، أن أنقرة ليست على اتصال مع المعارضة السورية المسلحة، وتدعو جميع المعارضين للنظام، إلى استخدام الطرق السلمية في نشاطهم، مؤكدا أن النظام السوري يجب أن يتخلي عن استخدام الجيش ضد المدنيين، ويوقف قتل المواطنين المسالمين.

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رد: وزير خارجية تركيا ينفي دعم أنقرة للمعارضة السورية المسلحة

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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/

SAUDI Arabia and Qatar have agreed to fund the Syrian opposition, which is struggling to afford
weapons in its fight against President Bashar al-Assad, a Syrian dissident has told The Times.

Opposition figures held a secret meeting with Saudi and Qatar officials after an Arab League meeting in Cairo last weekend.
All the Gulf countries decided then to pull their observers from a monitoring mission that has been widely criticised for being toothless.

"The Saudis are offering their support in any way
," said the dissident, who asked not to be named.

Until now the Free Syrian Army has been funded largely by individual donors,
many of them in the Syrian diaspora, enabling small arms to be bought on the black market in Lebanon.

The source said that after the meeting the situation "should get better".
The main problem was smuggling the weapons into Syria.
The opposition is calling for the international community to impose a no-fly zone similar to that by
NATO over Libya in March, and for Turkey and Jordan to set up buffer zones on Syria's northern and southern borders.


The dissident said Turkish plans had also been drawn up for bombing raids on
Syrian military airbases and weapons dumps if the situation escalated.
He said that the regime was playing a waiting game, marking time until the Free Syrian Army had run out of ammunition.

Qatar played a key role in funnelling weapons and advisers to
Libyan rebels during the revolution to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi last year.

Meanwhile, the US State Department said yesterday American and Russian diplomats had held
"very constructive" talks in Moscow as part of
an effort to resolve differences in the global response to unrest in Syria.

"I wouldn't say there was a major breakthrough," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

She acknowledged disagreement over Russia's arms
sales to the Syrian government. Britain, France and the US have condemned the sales, which they say have been fuelling Mr Assad's crackdown.

On Monday, Russian daily Kommersant said Syria planned to buy 36 Russian military training aircraft,
days after reports a Russian ship was carrying 60 tonnes of arms and equipment to Syria.