The Daily Monitoring Report – Sunday – 01-07-2012

July 1^st, 2012

- Some 133 people were martyred Saturday at the hands of the Assad troops, mostly in Rif Dimashq and Deir Al-Zour.⁽¹⁾

Field Mobility

- Pro-Free Syrian Army demonstrations were staged in the Hama towns of Al-Latamena and Al-Tawbah and Jabal Shahshbo.⁽²⁾

Internal Situation

- Sources with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) said that most of the injured people- who were supposed to be evacuated from the city- died after all endeavors of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent failed, holding the Assad regime responsible for that matter.⁽¹⁾

- Activists broadcast a clip on the internet under the title of “A girl between life and death, while the world is looking for its share of the cake in Geneva”, the clip showed a girl whose age did not exceed 7 years who is dying.⁽¹⁾

- Sources with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) said that the number of the regime’s killed people in the few last days soared, versus a very limited number for the martyrs of the FSA.⁽¹⁾

Political Mobility

- Abdul Basit Sida, head of the Syrian National Council (SNC), said that any solution to the Syrian crisis would only be effective with the removal of Al-Assad and his clique, pointing to the need to develop realistic mechanisms with regard to formation of a government of national unity.⁽¹⁾

- Haitham Al-Maleh, a Syrian opposition activist, said that the UN-Arab League Kofi Annan’s proposal, which he proposed to Geneva meeting, will prove failure, as the Syrian people will only negotiate on departure of Bashar Al-Assad, the whole regime with its entourage and leadership of security services.⁽¹⁾

Activities of Civil Organizations

- Syrian Network for Human Rights recorded that some 43 people were martyred in Rif Dimashq; 15 in Deir ez-Zor, 11 in Idleb, 10 in Hama, 9 in Daraa, 5 in Aleppo, 3 in Homs, only one person in Al-Haska and another one in Latakia.⁽²⁾

Political Stances

Arab

- Arab League (AL)’s deputy secretary general Ahmed Bin Hilli announced that the AL’s secretariat-general would offer invitations for more than 200 figures affiliated to the Syrian opposition from inside and outside and also from all spectra.^(1)(2)(4)

- Khaled al-Nasser, Secretary-General of the rebel Free Popular Movement, announced that the Cairo conference would discuss a national pledge document that represents the characteristics of the transitional period and Syria’s future without Al-Assad.⁽¹⁾

International

- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the plan makes clear the Syrian president cannot stay in power. “Assad will still have to go. He will never pass the mutual consent test, given the blood on his hands,” she said. Clinton also said it is significant that all of the countries at the meeting were able to come to an agreement. “Every day that has gone by without unity on the Security Council and among the states gathered here is a day that has given comfort to Assad and his cronies and supporters. What we have done here is to strip away the fiction that he and those with blood on their hands can stay in power,” she said. Clinton also said the U.N. Security Council should endorse the plan, thus allowing the possibility of sanctions against Syria if the requirements aren’t met.^{(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)}

- French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius asserted that the members of the transitional government would be consensually chosen, without including those who committed massacres, noting” There is no doubt that Assad must leave power.”⁽¹⁾⁽⁴⁾

- The foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, in addition to Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, Tunisia and France as well as Kofi Annan participate in the opening and closing sessions of the Cairo conference.^(1)(2)(4)

- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov underlined that the plan does not require Assad’s ouster, saying there is “no attempt in the document to impose on the Syrian people any type of transitional process.” He also expressed his sorrow for not inviting Saudi Arabia and Iran for the meeting.^{(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)}

Sources

1	Asharq Al-Awsat
2	Aljazeera net
3	Reuters
4	AFP
5	AP
6	Guardian
7	Telegraph