Syria opposition to meet in London on regime change plan
AFP
Date: 05-29-06
BEIRUT (AFP) - An exiled Syrian opposition group created two months ago said it will meet in London next week to discuss an "action plan" for regime change in Damascus.
The National Salvation Front, which includes outspoken former Syrian vice president Abdel Halim Kaddam and the banned Muslim Brotherhood, has called the meeting for June 4 and 5, it said in a statement.
About 50 opponents of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, including Kurdish parties, independents and communists, are expected to turn up for the talks, which will not however be attended by opposition figures living in Syria, an aide to Khaddam said.
The London meeting will come shortly before the head of a UN commission of inquiry submits his report into the February 2005 killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, which has been widely blamed on Syria.
Khaddam, who resigned last June and moved to exile in Paris where he is now leading opposition activities, has charged that Assad himself ordered the killing of Hariri in a massive Beirut bomb blast.
In turn, Syria has accused him of high treason and corruption.
He has held a number of meetings in Paris and Brussels with the London-based head of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Ali Sadredin al-Bayanuni, on their push for "peaceful regime change".
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