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dipsydoodle

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:16 AM Nov 2013

Assad advisor: With political will, Syrian crisis over in 2 weeks.

There’s a chance of ending the Syrian crisis in two weeks if there’s political will on all sides, according to Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media advisor to the Syrian president.

If these parties have the political will to put an end to the Syrian suffering, to the Syrian crisis, they can do it within weeks. They can only stop the financing the arming [of Syrian rebels] the smuggling of terrorists across the border from Turkey , and 50 percent of the Syrian crisis would be ended in two weeks’ time,” Dr. Shaaban said in an exclusive interview to RT.

She said that the Syrian government is ready to take part in Geneva-2 peace talks without any preconditions. President Bashar Assad’s government is ready to sit down for peace talks with “people who represent the political opposition” of the Syrian population, not the armed rebel groups, Dr. Shaaban said.

For example, the coalition represented by Saudi Arabia “has nothing to do with the Syrian people,” she noted.

http://rt.com/news/assad-aid-syria-exclusive-251/

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