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when you're in this beautiful middle eastern city it is hard to imagine that there is a battleground next door in syria with endless blood tears and destruction and the echoes of this conflict cannot resonates around lebanon and whoever you talk to in beirut has one question on their mind when is it going to be over. syria shattered into pieces. little remains of the peaceful little kept for a peaceful future. as rebels fight the government. of the people. his president. should. feel to share the border with such a neighbor. lebanon. with the

syrians general michael. our own thank you very much for being with russia today. so a year ago when you were asked about the conflict in syria you expressed confidence that the opposition would lose you still think so. zero zero. zero zero zero zero what. the crisis it's a stop to. this. compromising you know. between. syria. and giving go. then it will be to not be for nothing you know syria has to get something.

for that so all the process will continue to reach a final. final settlement but you know the opposition is heavily financed by the saudis and the west the western countries aren't even hiding it that they're actually supplying arms to the syrian opposition. in riyadh and the beginning and. grace is. face. lift. no it was decided. that there were. talking about extremists president assad says that he defines to opposition in two different groups there are the ones who care for the syrian people who want good

for their country and then there are you know the jihadist extremists who actually kill and torture people but they also call themselves opposition do you agree with that definition. there is no two sides syria the extremists who are. coming from everywhere. is there a world. to do the war. on the syrians you know fifty percent of them. so those was some people of syria. i'm not fighting. for the democracy they are fighting for an extremist. islamic regime and those. you know.

of the people of syria you know we're just so recently syria and face been decided between world players between america russia the west and russia and china not the arab world which is also quite strange do you think there will players who really are working in the best interest of syria or it's just political gaming between the big powers. of the of the. robot. knows they are not strong enough. to go to the result of the support of the. opposition you mean yes. but you don't think the west will continue to finance the opposition and supply were. they we continue or no you also have said that israel benefits

from this conflict in syria. why do you think so you know not too much ok so it wouldn't be in the interest of israel for us to fall right i don't think so. because the regime. which is. short. we say. see. these people. but just imagine just imagine that assad falls he loses his presidential seat what would that mean for the region. the victory of the extremist.

democracy in a short time. differently and for lebanon what would it mean everybody because. i side has recently said that whoever wants to dismantle his chemical arsenal for one billion dollars during one year he's welcome to do it do you think there will be volunteers to do it and who could be those people who will actually take care of that may be. those approaches of this. maybe it will get. or maybe not. but i think. at least. there are some chemical labs but who do you think will dismantle the chemical our arsenal who will actually go into syria and dismantle his chemical stockpiles some

areas. well. dick nicol people specialist people that will come drop. you know there are the prisoners of the nations there are reports that assad may be transferring his skeptical stockpiles to has while out to hide them from international community no i don't think so. what do you think has well and may have chemical weapons. who was is. it's also forbidden in syria but someone used it. no. no no i'm not saying it's hezbollah but it's also muslim i would look. but you know

. i'm going to read a quote from this summer's interview where against intervention in the absolute sense but a series of security incidents forces those who are responsible to intervene but isn't that the same logic behind what obama was proposing a local strike. oh no i don't think so what did you mean by what you were saying this quote absolutely against early intervention foreign intervention in syria but. practically the other not really in sending you know we. were loyal dolores is made by. jordan. the other intervening can mean. you

know for right now it seems like we may have found a diplomatic solution but the option to strike syria is still there no one is going to give you a guarantee that america is not going to strike it what do you think i don't the. condition. is within view has. to do. strike. with the american people. and he is the he is the first. decision agency to. refuse. to do done or the strikes. i don't think. also you know just says economy. condition.

of the possibility of rules to do it and there are many constraints on their many. so. they come up to where i take a short break now and after a break we'll talk about the long term consequences the syrian conflict will have around the region and in lebanon.

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. others. take your. doctor. welcome back to the show we're talking to general michel aoun about the syrian

conflicts and its consequences around the world in the region and particularly in lebanon and read another quote of yours the west considers human rights a marketing slogan not a true principle according to which they behave. what did you mean by this quote i mean as they don't respect your words they make your program was the human race. just a commercial. speak. don't respect but you know many would argue that. for example is also committing horrible human rights abuses just as much as the opposition and he's equally responsible for war crimes just like the opposition i don't think what's right. directly is going. syria but.

in syria defending themselves you know. they have to respect you know. the nexus of. of. of the school mention if they don't respect it from both sides nobody would you know them for that everybody would be. say anything but nobody will be nobody will see us only the. very. vocal. protests protest no more i have spoken to many syrians and their opinion about president assad various president assad himself he

says that he would not have been able to stay in power this long unless he had the support of the syrian people do you think the majority of syrians support him. syrian people. so. you know it is made my. position. to. start to refuse this or position even the beginning who are supporting it so. i see still the majority it was the syrian people so you believe people who were opposing a sudden the beginning are on his side now because they just don't want. a big part

of them. but what about these syrian refugees in lebanon million syrian refugees in lebanon what are their status now because from what i understand lebanon wasn't even able to give them a camp like jordan did are they in a free flow where are they going how are they. going to be where. many of them. the first you know wave. is thrown. where they wouldn't. put a very big problem. because according to the article that i represent the unemployment rate in lebanon doubled in just one year because of the syrian refugee

exodus to lebanon where looters moved up to us to do drug you know for them we need the help of the. united nations. to come back to syria. because as a team. our territory but syria is not going to be functional anytime soon even if the war ends it's a country that's devastated by war so if you can't go back if you're in lebanon already so it looks like this refugees will be staying in lebanon what are you going to do with them to do this they ahd many safe areas in syria. rice spoke of space and syria. has said eighteen is more

liberal. many safe places and they cannot. build. up some. of them serious ones they would like to ask the. nations will be. there and not them here you don't have the. capability to complete all of this people to judge off you don't need jobs here i vote no we are both six and the. word. so. we are over to kloden. what about the palestinian refugees i mean they've been in lebanon for a while now and there's this naturalized i'll come. because that is the. decision. which people.

i don't. go in. who are contrary. because all the militias promised. to. home for the palestinians. or so they are with. the. nice and respectable no it's problems what do you think. of the arab spring phenomena what has it done for the world the arab spring more and all the bad things they have reduced in the. wars. many of the resources of the. the only hope they will fight the war.

or the. you know with arab spring they're around and then you have the syrian crisis right next door how safe do you feel in lebanon on how you know you have that and plus the syrian crisis how can it be fixed more of right now. with. what are some for. our economy. and i don't see maybe. we'll have more room for more difficulties. but i don't only mean economically like for instance hezbollah openly supporting assad regime it causes the sunni extremist anger that could actually maybe turn into a local civil war in lebanon. plus

syria. responsible not to be but he is only about told the. gulf countries. they are helping. your cause. to have gone. from come to come to libya so. the result of the consequence of the. of this in the least. do you agree that lebanon is in a reno for settling accounts with other different countries like saudi arabia and iran are fighting within each other on lebanese grounds they're using lebanon as an area to lump. you know. the

problem is. your. place. because after the bombings lebanon suffered recently many sought that you know the country has become exposed to security point of view you don't agree. it was an offer for a moment. it will not begin again. but lebannon has always been a very secular state as secular as it can get in the middle east but there is a growing islamist movement around the region can that affect lebanon are you know where it's all over the region how can lebannon stay away from that phenomenon with the defeat of the extremists in syria would never happen. to become.

more or less. was a regime. it would. have. you seem pretty. determined that the extremist opposition is going to lose in syria right lists. how much does religion in general drive political decisions in lebanon too much know they are part of this is not. your allegiance but. bring about political parties based on religion. but look at for example you have has a ball out who is clearly very religious faith based and they have millions of supporters. so they you know their face and religion must have a say in political decisions. we have also our support

supporters. because. we are muslims or. we decide politics we are a political party. is politically divided but really based. so what we do for the country is political. and when we have to play people will put the mosque lebannon holds actually deposits of oil and gas yes why aren't you tapping into those deposits now are you waiting for syria to finish. no we have to do it for some purpose is. refusing. and the

government why are there were she isn't. they don't say. that the. as a mysterious thing. the prime minister. doesn't mean meeting mr serry made the call for him you know. that poor little. give your own. or you society zero. or give a. proposal for the patrol. but it would seem like it would benefit the whole of lebanon on if this reserves are used for the country you know that's is a good. we have. general michel aoun thank you very much for this interview.

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