Tunisia President proposed sending Bashar al -Assad to Russia

President of Tunisia Montsef Marzuki called for granting to President Syria Bashar Assad and his family immunity from judicial persecution, inviting Russia to accept him as a political refugee, Interfax reports. With this statement, Marzuki spoke at the meeting of "Friends of Syria", which takes place in Tunisia. “We must find a political decision, for example, to provide the Syrian president, his family and other senior officials with immunity from judicial persecution, and Russia could provide them with political asylum,” Marzuki said.

About 70 countries take part in the conference, including most Arab countries, the USA, the UK, France and Turkey. All of them are in support of the Syrian opposition.

On February 21, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, said that Russia does not see for himself the opportunity to take part in the meeting of the "Group of Friends of Syria." “The composition of its participants and the invited or the agenda officially told us officially. The main thing is that the real orientation of this initiative is unclear. According to incoming information, individual opposition groups were called to the Tunisia, and representatives of the Syrian government were not invited to the conference ... serious issues arise about the final document of the meeting. According to incoming information, a narrow group of countries is already working without the knowledge of other invitations, which are simply asked Make this document, ”said Lukashevich.

“Given all these circumstances, we do not see for ourselves the opportunity to take part in the meeting,” he added.

Tunisia took the initiative to hold the first international conference of the Syrian Friends Group during an emergency meeting of the Council of Lag at the level of foreign ministers, which took place a week ago in the Egyptian capital. Earlier, the ASH-Shark Al-Ausat Mezharab newspaper, citing a statement by the Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafiks Abdessalyama reported that Russia would take part in the event.

On February 4, Russia and China again blocked the adoption of the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria, which urged President Bashar Assad to resign against the backdrop of the confrontation between the authorities and the opposition. 13 states voted for the adoption of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars, which expressed support for the settlement of the League of the Arab states. The US representative in the UN Security Council Suzan Rice said that from now on the blood of people who die during clashes in Syria will be on the conscience of countries that have blocked the adoption of the resolution.

She emphasized that since the fall of last year, when the first attempt was made to approve the document about Syria, 2 thousand people were killed in the country. Immediately before voting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the UN Security Council members can come to a common opinion in relation to Syria if Moscow partners agree with its amendments. “If our colleagues show a constructive approach, then, in fact, we will already get a Moroccan, but a collective resolution of the Security Council, under which, I am sure, all without exception of the country will subscribe,” Lavrov said. “I hope that we had heard our amendments, promised to look at them again. We will wait for New York to wake up.”

On February 7, Lavrov said that Syria President Bashar al -Assad is ready for dialogue with all political forces in the country. Lavrov held a meeting with the Syrian leader in Damascus. "It is clear that the efforts to stop violence should be accompanied by the establishment of a dialogue between all political forces," the minister said, adding that "today they received confirmation of the readiness of the President of Syria to promote this work."