By Jaime Ortega.
David Cameron the British Prime Minister said that his country and Russia can overcome their differences on Syria, while Moscow has warned the West of arming the Syrian opposition. At the regional level, the Arab League welcomed the invitation of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to hold an emergency summit on the crisis in Syria. In the meantime, the Eight Vatican summit called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria.
In London, Cameron said on Sunday after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the eve of Eight summit in Northern Ireland, that Russia and Britain can overcome their differences on the subject of the Syrian war.
Cameron said at a joint news conference with Putin, “What I got out of our discussion today is that we can overcome these differences if we realize that we agree on some basic goals which put an end to the conflict to prevent the disintegration of Syria and let the Syrian people decide the ruler and the fight against extremists and defeat to them.”
For his part, Putin warned the West of arming Syrian opposition, saying that opponents of President Bashar al-Assad eat human organs and should not be supported.
In his first public remarks since the decision by the administration of President Barack Obama to arm the Syrian opposition to overthrow Assad, Putin said at the press conference that Russia wants to provide favorable conditions for ending the ongoing conflict that started two years ago.
He added, “I think you cannot deny that one should not support the people who do not kill their enemies, but are making they are eating the bodies in front of people and cameras.”
He said, “Are these the ones who want to support them?They want to provide them with weapons?”.
He said that Moscow “does not violate the rules,” while the international supply of weapons to the Syrian regime, saying that the Westerners partners in the Group of Eight arming Syrian dissidents would be a violation of these rules. “We are not breaking any rule or standard, and we call on all our partners to adopt the same behavior.”
Morsi called for a summit of Arab and Islamic countries to support the Syrian people (French)
The Arab summit in the Arab world, expressed that the Arab League welcomed the invitation of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to hold an Arab mini-summit on Syria, said Ambassador Ahmed Ben Helli – Deputy Secretary-General of the League – The challenges existing pay university to welcome any gathering between Arabs or Muslim at this level, but he pointed out that the university had not received the request of Egypt officially.
During the conference of victory of the Syrian people, Mursi called a meeting which was held in Cairo on Saturday evening – to the summit of Arab and Islamic countries for this purpose, and said that the Syrian people demand more action for his victory, also called for the Security Council that issued a decision banning flights over Syria, and announced the cut-Egyptian of relations with the Syrian regime.
In response to a question about the vision of the Arab League to the Egyptian position, Ben Helli pointed out, that the Arab League Council had passed a resolution of this regard this last year, but the execution is a sovereign decision for each member of the university on the unit in terms of sovereignty, freedom and positions of the Syrian crisis.
On claims to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, Ben Helli said, “We are now talking about dialogue and peaceful resolution of the crisis, which is paid by the Arab League towards resolving this crisis, and stop the blood shed urgently and save Syria.”
Amr and Kerry
On the other hand, the Foreign Ministry said that the Egyptian Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr to continue a telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry and addressed the deteriorating situation in Syria.
The statement stresses that Amr believes things can not continued this way, stressing rejection of killing and bloodshed of the Syrian people, as happens on a daily basis.
The statement added that the two ministers consulted on ways to provide support to the Syrian opposition in the framework of strengthening their capacity to engage in political negotiations seriously will eventually lead to a political solution which is accepted by the Syrian people and bring him to their legitimate aspirations. which also met with Egyptian Foreign Minister envoy Arab International Joint file Syria , Lakhdar Brahimi, where they discussed the situation in Syria and stressed the need to stop the military machine that claimed the lives of more than ninety thousand Syrian
