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Indonesia's Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, greets Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry) |
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Nusa Dua,
Bali. The leaders of Indonesia and Iran on Friday spoke out against foreign
intervention in settling the bloody two-year civil conflict in Syria.
In a
statement following a bilateral meeting between Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Bali
Democracy Forum, the two heads of state agreed that the resolution to the
conflict should rest with Syrians themselves.
“The two
countries agreed that the political process in Syria must rest in the hands of
the Syrian people, and the international community should provide room for
that,” Yudhoyono said.
Neither
leader mentioned the weapons reportedly being supplied to Syria by Iran.
Yudhoyono
said the problems in the Middle East, especially the Syrian conflict, dominated
the bilateral talks he had with Ahmadinejad.
Yudhoyono
added that the two leaders deplored the lack of interest among the
international community in helping to bring an end to the conflict in Syria.
“Whatever
the country, they should care, but there are no signs that the conflict will
end soon,” he said.
Ahmadinejad
said the Syrian people needed to be the driving force behind achieving
democracy. “Democracy cannot be forced onto them by any other countries,”
Ahmadinejad said.
Meanwhile,
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was also in Bali to attend the
forum, said after a bilateral meeting with Yudhoyono that the violence in Syria
should be halted as soon as possible so as to prevent the deaths of more
civilians.
“Immediately
bring a halt to the bloodshed and the fall of civilian victims,” Erdogan said,
Turkey has watched
thousands of refugees flood across the Syrian border and into its territory.
“I ask that
this conflict end so that there will not be larger waves of refugees,” Erdogan
said.
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