11 January 2014 - 20:30
Saudi Regime Trying to Unite Main Opposition in Syria

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal has held several meetings with his Arab and Turkish counterparts at his residence in Paris to save the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC), media reports said.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Saudi foreign minister has met with SNC chief Ahmad Jarba and his Qatari, UAE, Egyptian, Jordanian and Turkish counterparts at his home in Paris, the Arabic-language Day Press news website reported on Sunday.

“At this meeting, a range of issues came under discussion, including efforts for uniting Syrian opposition groups and the Syrian National Coalition and the recent contacts by Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Atiyyeh with opposition groups for bringing their viewpoints closer to each other and facilitating the trend of unity of SNC,” Day Press quoted an informed Arab diplomatic source as saying.

On Saturday, Syria’s Permanent Envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said that the Saudi regime is instigating people to terrorism and sending the terrorists to Syria under the pretext of Jihad, including "the sex jihad".

"Those issues became confirmed starting from the statement of the Saudi foreign minister who admitted twice in Cairo that Saudi Arabia is arming the opposition… it is a clear confession," al-Jaafari told al-Mayadeen TV.

He stressed that Saudi Arabia is instigating people to terrorism and perpetrating massacres in Syria, adding that the so-called "the Islamic Front" is also a terrorist organization.

Syria has repeatedly warned of the Saudi regime's support and instigation of terrorism in violation of the international resolutions, saying that since the beginning of the crisis, it has sent a number of letters to the UN and Security Council affirming that the Saudi regime is involved in the crimes perpetrated by the terrorist groups in Syria.

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