Brahimi should reach a solution with the US, Russia and China, on drafting a clear UN Security Council resolution transferring the power to the Syrian people, he added at a joint news conference with Nabil al-Arabi, the Arab League Secretary General, at the end of meetings of the Arab peace initiative committee and the Arab commission on Syria.
HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim said that the meeting of the Arab peace initiative committee held in Doha yesterday and attended by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had issued a statement showing the way after the UN General Assembly upgraded the status of Palestine.
A new phase will start by the Arab peace initiative committee to explore ways of conducting a fresh, meaningful peace process through a timetable to achieve equity for the Palestinian people, he said.
The prime minister added that the conferees agreed to call for a donors conference in Paris in the first quarter of next year to help rebuild Gaza.
He also noted that the legal status of the Palestinian state at international organisations was emphasised at the meeting.
The environment around Israel has undergone a complete change and the majority of world nations have voted for upgrading Palestine at the UN General Assembly, he noted. Israel must recognise now or in the future that it cannot continue to impose its dictated peace. The Israelis should arrive at the conviction that there will be no solution to the protracted crisis except through giving the rights back to their rightful owners, he said.
The discussions of the Arab commission on Syria centred on the upcoming meeting of the Syria friends in Marrakesh on Wednesday, on immediate relief efforts and on rebuilding activities after the crisis will have ended, he said.
The situation on the ground necessitates that power must be transferred clearly to the Syrian people under a transitional government with full authorities, he said.
HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim expressed the hope that the discussions that are underway in Geneva between Brahimi, Russia and the US will be conducive to a solution helpful for the UN Security Council to have a say.
In reply to a question on whether the Syrian regime would use chemical weapons against civilians, he said he would not rule out the regime’s use of any weapons, recalling that the regime believes it could only achieve its objectives through more killings.
“The situation in Syria obviously needs a UN Security Council resolution to transfer power,” he said, noting it was important to avoid wasting more time.
HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim made clear that the meaning of a transition of power in Syria had become more understandable by the UN Security Council permanent members.
Meanwhile, the Arab League Secretary General said that the international community and the major five powers at the UN Security Council agree on the transitional phase in Syria which means that the regime was on its way to an end, pointing out that the ministerial commission on Syria discussed yesterday the humanitarian situation and rebuilding efforts after fighting will have ended.
In response to a question about the peace process, HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim said things had changed in the Arab world and the Israeli people will realise that there must be a peace process.
“We know that the international Quartet committee did nothing in the past, and we also know that the US and President Obama and before him presidents Bush and Clinton all vowed to bring peace. In fact, the peace process began in Clinton days and there were endeavours close to an agreement on this process in Bush days.
Accordingly I think that there is some sort of moral obligation on the US to act as the sponsor of the peace process clearly, and if it did not assume that moral responsibility, there is the Security Council…. And what is needed now is not to impede the course of justice and the Security Council.”
“Despite the fact that we took 63 years to have a non-member observer state status, I know that the circumstances have now changed and that will contribute to speed up this process more than ever,” he said.
