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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have some urgent matters arising from the written and oral sources available to me on the appalling power struggle in Syria to bring to the attention of Baroness Ashton. Let me add this: the things I am about to say have been very much coloured by daily telephone contacts I have been having with a friend of mine, an Arabist, who is studying for a PhD in Damascus. I will just run through them: that is, my questions to you, Baroness Ashton. Are you maintaining direct contact with the Syrian National Council or is that reserved only for some of the more prominent Member States? What is your view of the revelation that, not only is this Syrian National Council dominated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it also adopts a different slant when in dialogue with its foreign contacts (to whom it projects itself as anti-Iran and anti-Hezbollah) than it does domestically (where it projects itself as anti-Israel)? My third question: if the Assad regime were to fall, the last and only secular state in the Middle East would disappear. That is stressed by every foreign – that is, not Syrian – analyst in Damascus that I have spoken to. What implications do you think that will have for Syrian religious minorities, which make up between 25 and 40% of the population? Syrian domestic and international opposition leaders hold two conflicting views. Dialogue with the Assad regime versus a violent overthrow of the regime: that is, civil war. What do you think about something which a Syrian dissident to whom I spoke today proposed: namely, that we should make European support for the Syrian National Council conditional on their commitment to negotiating with the Assad regime, in order to prevent the country from disintegrating."@en1
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