A Syrian opposition bloc -- recognized by the Arab League as the sole representative for Syria -- opened its first embassy today (March 27, 2013) in Qatar, in a diplomatic blow to President Bashar al-Assad, according to the Reuters website.
But opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib -- who took Syria's seat at an Arab summit in Doha yesterday -- used the ribbon-cutting ceremony today to voice his frustration with world powers for failing to do more to help the Syrian rebels in their two-year-old struggle to topple Assad.
"There is an international willingness for the revolution not to triumph," he told reporters at the embassy, which was decorated with balloons in the red, green, white, and black of Syria's national flag.
"The only way to victory is unity," Alkhatib declared. Damascus raged against summit host Qatar -- the richest nation in the world per capita -- for helping the opposition into Syria's seat at the League, while Russia and Iran also criticized the move to delegitimize Assad's rule.
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