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Titolo: Syrian army must pull back first under Annan plan

Come era prevedibile Annan manda a dire che: "The deadline is now," "We 
expect him [Assad] to implement this plan immediately.".
 
E' ineffabile quando aggiunge che: " it was up to the Syrian military to 
move first and show good faith by withdrawing tanks, big guns and troops 
from cities."
 
Secondo la sua buffa teoria gli insorti, impressionati dal ritiro 
unilaterale delle FFAA siriane, deporrebbero spontaneamente le armi...
 
Ora, è facilmente intuibile che se solo uno dei due belligeranti cessa 
le ostilità e si ritira l'altro ne approfitta per conquistare posizioni, 
attestarsi meglio e avanzare.  Una tregua non è tale se non è adottata 
dalle due parti contemporaneamente.
 
Del resto le componenti più consistenti degli insorti hanno già fatto 
sapere che non hanno alcuna intenzione di cessare le ostilità.
 
Evidentemente, secondo i calcoli dei nuovi Goebbels, il trucco dovrebbe 
essere sufficiente per montare una campagna mediatica in grado di 
turlupinare, per l'ennesima volta, l'opinione pubblica.
 
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Syrian army must pull back first under Annan plan
(Reuters) - Syrian artillery hit parts of Homs city and at least 37 
people were killed in clashes around Syria on Friday, opposition 
activists said, as peace envoy Kofi Annan told President Bashar al-Assad 
his forces must be first to cease fire and withdraw.
 
"The deadline is now," Annan's spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said in Geneva. "We 
expect him to implement this plan immediately."
 
An army pullback to bases would permit a safe return to mass, peaceful 
protest, said anti-government activists. But there was no sign of any 
risk-free demonstrations on Friday.
 
Heavy clashes raged in several provinces, including the northeastern 
Deir al-Zor province. Seven civilians died in fighting there, which also 
killed two rebels and three soldiers, the Syrian Observatory for Human 
Rights reported.
 
In the capital Damascus, Friday protests drew gunfire in several 
neighborhoods. Two died in the crossfire between rebels and state 
forces, the British-based Observatory said.
 
"Clashes erupted between armed defector groups and the regime forces in 
the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus after security forces tried to break 
up a protest," it said.
 
In Homs, Syria's third city, residents said shells and mortar rounds 
exploded as troops raided anti-Assad areas, killing 10 civilians. 
Farther north, in the business hub of Aleppo, an explosion badly wounded 
six soldiers and five civilians, activists said.
 
Assad vowed that he would spare no effort to implement Annan's peace 
proposals, but warned they would not work unless there is an end to 
foreign funding and arming of rebel groups.
 
The United Nations says Assad's forces have killed at least 9,000 people 
in the year-long uprising. The government says around 3,000 soldiers and 
police have been killed.
 
INTERVENTION "CLOSED SUBJECT"
 
The leader of Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite group Hezbollah, one of Assad's 
main allies, said the world would no longer demand the president's 
ouster and that rebels were incapable of toppling him by force.
 
"The armed opposition is incapable of toppling the regime," Sayyed 
Hassan Nasrallah said. "Some people talked about the political 
option...but with conditions that equaled the fall of the regime, for 
example for President Assad to step down. I think the international and 
regional political climate today has passed this phase."
 
Nasrallah pointed to Annan's initiative as proof that world powers would 
not try to help the opposition topple Assad.
 
Removing any ambiguity about the ceasefire terms of the peace plan, 
Annan's spokesman said it was up to the Syrian military to move first 
and show good faith by withdrawing tanks, big guns and troops from cities.
 
The Annan plan "specifically asks the government to withdraw its troops, 
to cease using heavy weapons in populated centers", Fawzi said. "The 
very clear implication here is that the government must stop first and 
then discuss a cessation of hostilities with the other side and with the 
mediator."
 
The plan requires the lightly-armed rebels to stop shooting. But the 
Free Syrian Army (FSA) has not said whether it accepts Annan's proposals 
and political opposition groups have not explicitly endorsed his call 
for a dialogue with Assad.
 
Annan is acting on behalf of the United Nations and Arab League. 
Diplomats say he may ask for a U.N. monitoring mission to oversee 
implementation of the peace plan.
 
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. First we want to see that the 
bloodbath ends," said an activist calling himself Abu Mohammed.
 
If the U.N. plan is adopted and peace monitors are deployed, the 
opposition could protest peacefully and openly as Egyptians did during 
their revolt against Hosni Mubarak, he said.
 
"But it's not going to happen."
 
CLINTON IN TALKS
 
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah 
in Riyadh on Friday to discuss the conflict ahead of a "Friends of 
Syria" conference with opposition leaders and Arab and Western foreign 
ministers at the weekend in Istanbul.
 
Saudi Arabia, with Qatar, has led Arab efforts to press Assad to end his 
crackdown on the uprising and step aside.
 
"The policy options are very limited. The United States is in no 
position to assist in arming the rebels or to provide any kind of 
military support for them. So my guess is there will be efforts from the 
Saudis to coordinate proposals and at least buy time for the rebels," 
said former U.S. envoy Robert Jordan.
 
Syrian dissidents said a military withdrawal - if it happens - would let 
them return to peaceful mass demonstrations.
 
"There is nothing happening that can lift people's spirits, but we've 
reached a stage of no going back, so it doesn't really matter," said 
anti-Assad activist Waleed Fares.
 
"The real question is if Assad will actually implement Annan's 
initiative ... That wouldn't even satisfy the minimum of our demands 
except that he would have to allow us to protest peacefully without 
shooting us and shelling our homes."
 
Assad's strongest regional ally, Iran, said 12 Iranian citizens abducted 
"by Syrian opposition forces" had been released, including five 
engineers working for Syria's power plant in Homs who were kidnapped in 
late December.
 
Iran is helping Syria beat Western sanctions by providing a tanker to 
ship Syrian oil to China, netting a potential $80 million. Along with 
Syria's big-power ally Russia, China has shielded Assad, vetoing two 
Western-backed resolutions at the United Nations over the bloodshed.
 
China is not bound by Western sanctions against Syria.
 
(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva, Jessica Donati in London, 
Dominic Evans in Beirut, Angus McDowall in Riyadh; Writing by Douglas 
Hamilton; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/30/us-syria-idUSBRE8280G820120330?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
 
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Sostieni Rete ECO
 
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 turlupinare, per l'ennesima volta, l'opinione pubblica.
 
Mi sembra di cogliere una sfumatura di perplessità verso /questo/ piano 
di pace ONU.
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of  freedom, must, like men, 
undergo the  fatigues of supporting it.”
 
North Idaho 21st Batallion of Light Foot