Attempts of reducing Syria’s Assad powers leads nowhere, Lavrentiev
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – If somebody pursues the aim of creating a new Constitution for the sake of changing the powers of the Syrian president [Bashar al-Assad] and thereby trying to change power in Damascus, this road leads nowhere, Russian President’s Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev said yesterday.
If the opposition really believes that some changes are required, then “it should put forward some concrete proposals and not indulge in speculations that there can be no changes as long as Bashar Assad is in power,” Lavrentiev told TASS.
He stressed that the relation among the guarantor countries [Russia, Turkey and Iran] in Syria is practical and quite strong.
For its part, the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) made its response, on Tuesday, saying statements of Russia’s special residential envoy for Syria are a rejected intervention in choices of the Syrians and in the track of the political process.
“The Syrian people do not accept anyone to tell them what to do or determine the future of Syria,” the SNC posted on its official Facebook account.
The SNC called for an “international firm stance regarding this Russian absurdity that threatens the entire political process”.