Peace envoy says Assad could contribute to 'new' Syria

October 28: Un-Arab League emissary Lakhdar Brahimi, who landed in Damascus today, accepts President Bashar al-Assad could help the move to "another" Syria, yet not as the nation's guide. Brahimi, who was in Syria on the most recent leg of a territorial tour to rally back for peace talks, spoke about Assad in a meeting in Paris with the Jeune Afrique site distributed today. "Large portions of the aforementioned around (Assad) accept his nomination (for another presidential term in 2014) is an actuality. He acknowledges this an outright right... He supposes most importantly of finishing his order," the veteran Algerian ambassador said. In any case, "what history shows us is that after an emergency like this there is no backtracking. President Assad could in this manner functionally help the move from the Syria of soon after, that of his father (the late president Hafez al-Assad) and himself, to what I call the new Republic of Syria." Brahimi said the Us-Russian accord to destroy Syria's concoction stockpile had converted Assad from an "untouchable" into an "accomplice" and persuaded his supporters considerably a greater amount of his capacity to win. Brahimi additionally confronts a daunting task in persuading the broke restriction to go to the Geneva talks, after 19 Islamist revolt aggregations cautioned that anybody participating in the talks might be recognized a swindler. "This meeting is the start of a methodology. We trust that the restriction will devise a workable plan to concede to a believable and delegate appointment," Brahimi said. "We ought not cheat ourselves: the whole planet won't be available. Anyway as the methodology proceeds, it might as well incorporate however much of the planet as could reasonably be expected." Brahimi, a veteran global troubleshooter, said he expected that if a settlement couldn't be arrived at Syria might turn into a fizzled state like Somalia, which has not had a working government for two decades. "The true risk in Syria is not the part of the nation. The true threat is a kind of "Somalisation," yet significantly more profound and enduring than what we have seen in Somalia.