(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Earlier this month, China and Russia vetoed a draft UNSC resolution urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit power.
Both permanent members of the Security Council have repeatedly stressed that Syria's problems must be resolved through diplomatic channels.
Recently Syria rejected an Arab League-drafted proposal calling for the UN Security Council to deploy a joint force to Syria.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Hisham Jaber, Director of Center for Middle East Studies, to share his opinion on this issue.
The following is a transcript of the interview:
Press TV: Given all the international opposition to any form of intervention in Syria, what are the chances that such an intervention will take place now?
Jaber: I do not think there is any chance to any foreign intervention in Syria will take place because it needs first of all the approval of the UN Security Council.
It is not clear yet what they want. They proposed to have a joint UN and Arab peacekeeping forces and it is not clear yet if it will include armed forces.
Anyway, besides the Russian and Chinese veto even France made it clear, Alain Juppe, when he said any military peacekeeping forces it is not a solution for Syria and it is really confusing and complicated.
And we hear Mrs. Clinton today saying to Mr. Assad to go ahead if he wants a solution for democracy etc. etc.
It is really also confusing and the Russian pushed President Assad to go ahead quickly for presidential election.
I think if they want a solution, it is clear, it is easy. They have to push the opposition to accept dialogue with the Syrian regime instead of pushing them to refuse any dialogue or trying to finance them or to arm them.
The solution, the Libyan solution will not succeed in Syria because Libya is not Syria and Syria is not Libya and also the scenario, the Yemen scenario will not be logical and feasible in Syria because also there is a big difference.
The only solution in Syria, if they want to do it and we start to hear many voices to call, first of all they have to go to dialogue.
Second, if President Assad goes tomorrow, I mean as soon as possible to a presidential election and make his program clear and let the opposition go ahead quickly with their programs, many observers believe that President Assad will have between 55 or 60 percent at least of the Syrian people support.
If they want democracy, they have to go ahead with this not to encourage the insurgent, not to ask the Syrian army to go back to its barracks to stop the fire from one side because there is another side, insurgents making terrorism operations in Syria.
Who controls them? They did not tell us yet who has control on those insurgents or who can guarantee that those insurgents will stop their military operation against the infrastructure of their country, against the army, against the population. Every thing you know is confusing. If really the Western Block, they want a solution it is easy and I think President Assad will accept.
Press TV: Mr. Jaber, the US has vowed to crank up the pressure on Syria. Recently al-Qaeda has added its voice for regime change in Syria.
Do you see any parallels between what has been said and just how far is the US willing to go to increase the pressure on Syria?
Jaber: No, no the US will go to increase the pressure on Syria but it seems if US wants a solution in Syria like we said, they could have a solution but it seems they do not want a solution, they want overthrow the regime only.
They want to push Syria into a civil war because when they are talking about peacekeeping forces, peacekeeping forces go to separate in a civil war between two factions who are fighting each other.
Syria is not yet in a civil war. Syria still has its army, institution and government and fighting insurgents. If they want to send peacekeeping forces, urgent as they said to Syria, I think no, it is not urgent. It is very early because we did not arrive to a civil war in Syria yet.
If they want to push the country to a civil war, they have to wait and to send peacekeeping forces later on.
I think United States will continue to make pressure on Syria for many reasons, for political reason because Syria did not kneel down when Obama sent his ambassador in 2008 and Sarkozy went to Syria within three years.
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