{"id":89751,"date":"2014-02-02T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=89751"},"modified":"2014-02-05T08:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T08:31:10","slug":"%e2%80%98no-direct-us-syria-talks-unless-kerry-apologizes%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-syrian-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=89751","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No direct US-Syria talks unless Kerry apologizes\u2019 \u2013 Syrian FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction &#8212; Feb 2, 2014<\/h1>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/US-Secretary-of-State-John-Kerry-speaks-on-Syria-on-Aug-26-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-78268\" title=\"US Secretary of State John Kerry. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/US-Secretary-of-State-John-Kerry-speaks-on-Syria-on-Aug-26-2013-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>They received little media attention at the time but Secretary of State John Kerry&#8217;s opening remarks at talks over Syria revealed the true agenda behind the negotiations.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">The talks in Geneva weren&#8217;t intended to restore peace in Syria, at least as far as the U.S. was concerned. Instead they were being used to pave the way for the installation of a transitional regime in Damascus.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">In other words the talks were being used to bring about regime change in Syria.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"MsoNormal\">Unsurprisingly, the Syrian delegation has demanded an apology. While the talks ended on Friday without producing any tangible result. Other than to elicit Kerry&#8217;s comments, which revealed America&#8217;s true objective in Syria: regime change.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/h5>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kerry: No way Assad can be part of new gov&#8217;t in Syria<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Reuters &#8212; Jan 22, 2014<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">US\u00a0Secretary of State John\u00a0Kerry said during opening statements at the Geneva 2 summit that there is no way current Syrian President Bashar Assad can be part of a new transitional government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Kerry added that Assad cannot regain legitimacy to govern in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The peace summit opened on Wednesday morning in Montreux, Switzerland and is being attended by high level diplomats from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\" http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Breaking-News\/Kerry-No-way-Assad-can-be-part-of-new-gov-in-Syria-338984\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018No direct US-Syria talks unless Kerry apologizes\u2019 \u2013 Syrian FM<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Russia Today &#8212; Feb 1, 2014<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Syrian FM claims to have rejected a US offer of direct talks without the involvement of the opposition &#8220;tools&#8221; during the Geneva conference over John Kerry\u2019s refusal to apologize for his biased speech. US officials denied seeking such a meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On his way back to Syria, the country\u2019s foreign minister Walid Muallem was asked why hadn\u2019t the Damascus delegation spoken directly with the US without intermediaries from the opposition delegation.<br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cFrankly, the Americans have asked for that in Montruex and I refused unless Kerry apologizes for the speech he made in the conference,\u201d<\/em><\/em> Walid Muallem told Syrian state media on board a plane bound for Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Syria&#8217;s foreign minister was apparently referring to the opening remarks of US Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s speech made in Montreux, Switzerland on January 22, who <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/geneva-two-peace-conference-008\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that President Bashar Assad lost all legitimacy and cannot be a part of any transitional government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>\u201cThere is no way, not possible in the imagination, that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain legitimacy to govern,\u201d<\/em> Kerry said in that speech. Walid Muallem rebuffed him at the time, saying no outside force had the right to <em>\u201cwithdraw legitimacy\u201d<\/em> from the president or government except for the people of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/syria-us-talks-apology-528\/ \">Continues &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State John Kerry&#8217;s opening remarks at the Geneva 2 summit may have riled the Syrian government delegation but they also revealed America&#8217;s real agenda <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89984,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89751\/revisions\/89984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}