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Senior MP: Turkey, UN Welcome Iran's Proposal for Truce in Syria.(Fars). "Iran's proposal for a ceasefire in Syria has been welcomed by Turkey and the UN," Chairman of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told reporters at the end of an open session of the parliament on Sunday. "After 20 months of undesirable events in Syria, it should be said that (the crisis in) Syria has no military solution," he stressed.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country. Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes. The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad. Earlier this month, Iran offered the UN and Arab League Special Envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Ebrahimi, a plan for a rapid settlement of the crisis in Syria. Later, Iranian Ambassador to Syria Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani stated that Iran's plan can be an appropriate ground for any political move aiming to settle the Syrian crisis.
The Iranian envoy said that this plan needs consideration of all viewpoints in the Syrian political arena and abroad to turn into a comprehensive plan. Sheibani said for settling the crisis, Iran believes in political solution and participation of different political and social trends in a national and all-inclusive dialogue and Tehran has prepared a proposal and has submitted it to international and regional bodies and countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. He said that copies of the proposal have been submitted to the UN special envoy in Syria affairs Lakhdar Brahimi and Syrian officials, and added that Iran's plan included stopping violence, starting ceasefire, and preventing the aliens' support for armed groups in the first stage.
Brahimi is now in Damascus meeting top Syrian officials over the plan which includes a truce during the upcoming Muslim eve of Eid al-Adha. Both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Mualem have voiced pleasure with the truce proposal. Prior to Brahimi, Kofi Annan was the UN and Arab League Joint Special Envoy to Syria. Annan resigned in August after his peace plan failed. Annan resigned due to the rebel and terrorist groups' continued massacre of the civilians in Syria. Annan had demanded both the Syrian government and the opposition to put down arms and start national dialogue, but after the Syrian army withdrew from crisis-hit regions, rebel and terrorist groups violated the terms of the peace initiative and refrained from ceasing fire. Read the full story here.
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