AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's ambassador to be able to Iraq Nawaf al-Fares said about Wednesday he or she had defected and also started that wave next to President Bashar al-Assad, getting that earliest senior diplomat in order to terminate your embattled government.
"I announce of which I have joined, made by this moment, the ranks of the emerging trend with the Syrian people," Fares said.
"I ask . that affiliates on the navy to be able to enroll in the particular wave so to maintain the continent as well as seniors . Turn your pistols in direction of the actual bad guys made by this regime," this individual added.
Fares was filmed speaking in front of this environmentally friendly and also white Syrian banner from the particular era in advance of the particular Baath Party took power personal training decades ago. He would not supply facts regarding his location.
He did not enter away his reasons why you are defecting, however repeatedly mentioned federal government energies includes been recently hurting civilians in the course of its crackdown upon the actual 16-month-old uprising.
Nawaf, your Sunni Muslim tribal determine out of western Syria, was employed throughout 2008 seeing that ambassador for you to Baghdad, a receptive post after a new three-decade freeze throughout diplomatic interaction between the 2 countries.
He was observed as being a risk-free choice, because he had in the past offered because the major standard inside Assad's Baath Party while in the province connected with Deir al-Zor. He can also be a member in the Ogeidat tribe, a serious tribe prolonged allied for you to Syria's Alawite ruling minority.
(Reporting by means of Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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