“I said more than once, people in the region are calling for a real change not a cosmetic one. Governments that don’t want to change will be victims of change.”
Source/Credit: Al Arabiya News
By Shounaz Meky | February 23, 2015
Former United Nations diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi said on Monday the United States is to blame for the current situation in Iraq. Brahimi also called on Monday for Iran to become involved in negotiations surrounding Syria.
Speaking at the first ever International Government Communication Forum (IGCF) 2015, held in Sharjah, UAE, Brahimi singled out the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, for ‘providing an environment that allowed insurgency to grow in Iraq, helping a group like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to flourish.’
“The U.S. is to be blamed,” Brahimi said. “It created conditions that allowed ISIS to grow.”
The Algerian politician - whose diplomatic career spans four decades - also said Iran needed to be part of a political solution in Syria and Iraq, given the “regional power” it holds in both countries.
“Iran is part of the problem, and a member of the problem has to be part of the solution, even if other parties think otherwise,” Brahami stated.
Reflecting on his U.N. peace mission in Syria, Brahimi said he always liked to look back at “tasks that weren’t carried out properly.”
Brahimi announced that he was stepping down from his role as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria in May 2014 after failing to secure a peaceful solution to the ongoing civil war. He initially took over the mission in 2012 from former U.N. chief Kofi Annan.
“We learn from our failures,” he said during a one-on-one conversation with Raghida Dergham, New York bureau chief for the pan-Arab Al-Hayat Newspaper.
“I said more than once, people in the region are calling for a real change not a cosmetic one. Governments that don’t want to change will be victims of change.”
He said the Syrian government was to be blamed for allowing the crisis in its country spiraling out of control.
“The Syrian government did not react to demands of change,” which began peacefully in Raqqa, the diplomat recalled, when people were calling for “freedom and dignity”.
“Governments need to be held accountable for what is going on,” he said speaking of the Syria crisis.
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