INTERNATIONAL peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has called for "real change" and a transitional government in Syria but the armed opposition has swiftly retorted that it cannot include President Bashar al-Assad or his top lieutenants.
The envoy unveiled his initiative in Damascus on Thursday as Russia, the Syrian regime's most powerful ally, denied the existence of a joint peace plan with the United States, amid a flurry of year-end diplomatic activity to try to end the bloody 21-month conflict.
"Change should not be cosmetic; the Syrian people need and require real change, and everyone understands what that means," the UN-Arab League envoy said on the fifth and final day of his latest peace mission to Syria.
"We need to form a government with all powers ... which assumes power during a period of transition. That transition period will end with elections," Brahimi said.
He did not specify a date for the envisaged elections, either presidential or parliamentary depending on what could be agreed. He also made no mention on the fate of Assad, whose current term expires in 2014.
"The transition period should not lead to the collapse of the state and its institutions," Brahimi said, adding the initiative was incomplete.
A diplomat at the UN Security Council said on Wednesday the veteran Algerian troubleshooter had received no support from either side since arriving in Damascus on Sunday.
"Assad appears to have stonewalled Brahimi again, the UN Security Council is not even close to showing the envoy the kind of support he needs and the rebels will not now compromise," the diplomat said.
The armed opposition National Coalition and Western governments that recognise it reiterated on Thursday that no transition that gave a role to Assad and his inner circle would be acceptable.
"We will accept any political solution that does not include the Assad family nor those who harmed the Syrian people," National Coalition spokesman Walid al-Bunni told a news conference in Istanbul.
"Our first condition for them is to leave the country," he added.
France, which was the first Western government to recognise the opposition grouping as sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people, said Assad should not have any role in a transition, accusing him of "still ferociously repressing his people".
Russia, which to the fury of the West has refused to cut cooperation with Damascus, hosted a Syrian delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad, ahead of talks on Saturday with Brahimi.
"This is of course a part of the efforts we are undertaking to encourage dialogue not just with the government but all opposition forces," foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
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