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**MadMark** · 07-12-2012, 04:18 PM

More Cracks in Assad regime. More top Diplomats abandon the regime

Report from bbc:

Syria's ambassador to Iraq has defected to the opposition and urged other senior Syrian politicians and members of the military to do the same.

Nawaf Fares is the first senior Syrian diplomat to abandon the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The move comes just a week after a Syrian general from a powerful family close to President Assad also defected. Meanwhile Western nations are urging the UN to threaten tough sanctions against Syria.

They want a 10-day sanctions ultimatum to be part of a Security Council resolution on the future of the UN's observer mission in the country. A new resolution must be passed before the mission's mandate ends on Friday next week. Mr Fares confirmed his defection in a statement broadcast on Facebook and al-Jazeera TV. With Syrian revolutionary flags behind him, he read out the statement saying he was resigning both as Syria's ambassador to Iraq and as a member of the ruling Baath Party.

"I call on all party members to do the same because the regime has transformed it into a tool to oppress the people and their aspirations to freedom and dignity. I announce, from this moment on, that I am siding with the people's revolution in Syria, my natural place in these difficult circumstances which Syria is going through."

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MadMark Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 491 Senior Member	More Cracks in Assad regime. More top Diplomats abandon the regime Report from bbc: Syria's ambassador to Iraq has defected to the opposition and urged other senior Syrian politicians and members of the military to do the same. Nawaf Fares is the first senior Syrian diplomat to abandon the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The move comes just a week after a Syrian general from a powerful family close to President Assad also defected. Meanwhile Western nations are urging the UN to threaten tough sanctions against Syria. They want a 10-day sanctions ultimatum to be part of a Security Council resolution on the future of the UN's observer mission in the country. A new resolution must be passed before the mission's mandate ends on Friday next week. Mr Fares confirmed his defection in a statement broadcast on Facebook and al-Jazeera TV. With Syrian revolutionary flags behind him, he read out the statement saying he was resigning both as Syria's ambassador to Iraq and as a member of the ruling Baath Party. "I call on all party members to do the same because the regime has transformed it into a tool to oppress the people and their aspirations to freedom and dignity. I announce, from this moment on, that I am siding with the people's revolution in Syria, my natural place in these difficult circumstances which Syria is going through."
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