Yesterday, Sunday, fifty figures from the Syrian opposition met in London, including former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam and the General Controller of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ali Sadr al-Din al-Bayanouni, to discuss how to change the regime in Damascus peacefully. The Syrian opposition members met within the framework of the founding conference of the National Salvation Front, and are seeking to change the regime in Damascus. The Syrian regime through peaceful means, rejecting any external interference in Syrian affairs
Their initiative comes as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is under intense pressure from the international community, which demands that Syria fully cooperate with the international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.
A person close to Khaddam said that the participants will determine the work program and the leadership of the National Salvation Front, with the meeting concluding with a press conference today, Monday. Khaddam said in a speech he delivered at the opening of the conference that the current Syrian regime is a one-man regime, a family system, and an entourage that helps it spread corruption and spread fear. He added that the regime is on the verge of falling because when the one who speaks is arrested, when the one who thinks is arrested, and when the word becomes stronger than the sword, this means that the regime is on the verge of collapse.
But he acknowledged that there are great difficulties on the way to change, and we must see these difficulties and work to overcome them. Khaddam considered that Syria today is faced with two options. The first option is to continue with the status quo, and its fate is for Syria to end, for the Syrian people to retreat, and for their suffering to increase. He added that the other way is Returning to the people and building a new democratic system in which the principle of transfer of power through free elections is established, guarantees the freedom of citizens, freedom of society, freedom of groups and individuals, achieves justice and equality, and ends the policy of isolation, discrimination and exclusion.
