Daniel McAdams in an article for Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity wrote that Kerry’s pressure on UN Chief Ban Ki-moon to uninvite Iran to the conference (Geneva II), though Iran is far more affected by the crisis than the majority of countries invited to participate, was based on Iran’s refusal to endorse the pre-condition of support for regime change in Syria as the goal of the conference. At least regime change was the US interpretation of the Geneva I Communique issued after that conference in 2012.
He said that the US is purposefully misinterpreting the Geneva I final statement. Based on the Communique, the participants call for the formation of a transitional government with the participation of all Syrian groups, including the present Syrian government.
“If anyone is violating the letter and spirit of the Geneva Communique, it is the US-Saudi side. The US government demanding that Assad must go clearly violates this statement in the Communique that the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria must be respected,” McAdams said.
He concluded that, therefore, if any country should be dropped from Geneva II conference that is the United Stated and any other country that illegally insist on the overthrow of the current Syrian government as pre-condition for Geneva II.
Last Monday, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon sent a letter to Iran to invite the country to the Geneva II peace conference on Syria.
The invitation enraged the US, Britain and the main Syrian opposition body, which warned it would not turn up in the Swiss town of Montreux unless Iran conceded on the issue of a transitional government, a central pillar of western-backed attempts to oust President Bashar al-Assad. The US said the UN must take back its invitation.
The threat and the pressures by the US-led West could eventually make Ban Ki-moon rescind his invitation to Iran.
