Syrian envoy to Iraq defects, calls on others to follow suit

Baghdad: Syria’s ambassador to Iraq Nawaf Fares has defected to the opposition and urged the army to turn its guns on the regime, becoming the most senior diplomat to abandon President Bashar al-Assad.

“I announce my defection from my post as representative of the Arab Syrian Republic in Iraq and my withdrawal from the ranks of the (ruling) Baath party,” Fares said in a message aired on Al Jazeera TV Wednesday and confirming earlier
reports of his defection.

“I call on all free and worthy people in Syria, particularly in the military, to immediately rejoin the ranks of the revolution,” he said, adding: “turn your cannons and your tanks towards the criminals in the regime who are killing the people.”

He also called on fellow Baath party members to reject the regime which he accused of using the party as “a tool to repress the people and their aspiration of freedom and dignity.”

The disaffected diplomat submitted a letter to the Iraqi foreign ministry and will meet with Iraqi officials on Thursday, a diplomat said, “They are going to discuss sending him to another country,” the diplomat added.

 

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