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started a reform initiative in the country,
Annan will return to Syria soon for further
talks with Syrian officials.
During his last visit earlier this month, the
former UN chief called for a peaceful
solution to end the year-long unrest in the
country.
but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are
seeking hard to bring the country into
chaos through any possible means. Tel
Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals
have been staging various plots in the
hope of stirring unrests in Syria once
again.
The Syrian president has said that he is
ready for any honest effort to resolve the
situation in the country.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since
mid-March with organized attacks by wellarmed
gangs against Syrian police forces
and border guards being reported across
the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of
the security forces, have been killed, when
some protest rallies turned into armed
clashes.
The government blames outlaws,
saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for
the deaths, stressing that the unrest is
being orchestrated from abroad.
In October, calm was eventually restored
in the Arab state after President Assad
This is while Assad has done a lot in recent
months to reform laws and conditions in
his country. The Syrian president
announced the end to the state of
emergency, granted citizenship to many
Syrian Kurds and promised parliamentary
elections later this year. In January, he
issued the latest of thousands of
amnesties for those detained since the
uprising began.
Syria also in February held a referendum
on the country's new constitution. More
than 14 million Syrians over 18 could vote
and almost 90 percent of the voters
approved a new constitution in the
referendum.
Under the new charter, freedom is 'a
sacred right' and 'the people will govern
the people' in a multi-party democratic
system based on Islamic law.
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