Gemayel calls US, Russia to put forth solution to Syria unrest

Kataeb Party leader, Amine Gemayel, upped calls Wednesday upon the linchpins of the 27-month-old crisis in Syria to come up with the much-sought solution to end the conflict next door. He was mainly referring to Washington and Moscow, which he said they ought to put forth a three-stage mechanism for the solution that would end violence, restore confidence among ethnical and religious communities, and rebuild Syria's political and economic capacities. The former Lebanese president made these remarks during a conference in Paris on encouraging investments in Lebanon and the region. "Developments in Syria have sadly turned into an occasion for regional and international powers to intervene whether directly or through others. The scene in Syria uncovers a confrontation between contradictions: democracy versus dictatorship, Sunnites versus Shias, Persians versus Arabs, US versus Russia, terrorists under the guise of religion versus everyone. If they [terrorists] win, they will certainly fight each other in a war of elimination," he noted. He warned that Syria was unstable, which made the Middle East a less stable region as well. "This is why democracy must emerge from Syria," he reckoned. "The Mideast region needs a stepped-up mobilization to replace dictatorships with democracy," he concluded.