UN General Assembly
2012

immediate neighbours. Egypt, along with the three other countries involved in our initiative, has held meetings that manifested many areas of commonalities. We will continue to work to put an end to the suffering of the Syrian people and provide them with an opportunity to choose freely the regime that best represents them. After the current regime comes to an end — the regime that is killing its own people day and night — the Syrian people will choose, by their own free will, a regime that represents them and that places Syria in its proper position among democratic countries contributing to the common march of the Arab people based on its solid, legitimate, regional and international role. I would like to emphasize here that the initiative is open to all. It is not just the purview of its four starting parties, but is open to all who wish to positively contribute to resolving the Syrian crisis and suffering, that we are all responsible for. All of us, the world over, must actively endeavour