AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's ambassador in order to Iraq Nawaf al-Fares stated with Wednesday he / she acquired defected along with joined the emerging trend alongside President Bashar al-Assad, growing to be the 1st senior citizen diplomat to be able to quit this embattled government.
"I announce that will I possess joined, using this moment, that standing with the revolution in the Syrian people," Fares said.
"I require . the actual members on the military to help join this revolution so to guard belgium as well as residents . Turn your guns for the crooks with this regime," this individual added.
Fares appeared to be filmed talking looking at your green along with whitened Syrian flag on the era prior to the Baath Party required strength all 5 many years ago. He failed to provide details of his / her location.
He failed to disclose their advantages for defecting, but over and over again said administration allows possesses already been killing civilians for the duration of it is crackdown to the 16-month-old uprising.
Nawaf, a new Sunni Muslim tribal find coming from northern Syria, appeared to be employed within 2008 since ambassador in order to Baghdad, a vulnerable post after a three-decade freeze within diplomatic operations in between the 2 main countries.
He was observed while a safe choice, as he or she possessed in the past functioned because the best established throughout Assad's Baath Party inside the province regarding Deir al-Zor. He is also your member in the Ogeidat tribe, an essential family long allied to Syria's Alawite ruling minority.
(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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