Talk:Syrian National Council

Infobox
I strongly believe the use of a country/government infobox here is inappropriate. Members of the council have explicitly rejected comparisons to the NTC in Libya and said the National Council of Syria is not a government: -Kudzu1 (talk) 22:25, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The infobox itself does not make this an article about a country. Brightgalrs ( /braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/ )[1] 08:16, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Then why use that infobox? This is not a government. It's a political organization. -Kudzu1 (talk) 15:50, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Page protection
This page needs to be semi-protected. A request for protection has been sitting unanswered on the appropriate noticeboard for well over an hour. What gives? -Kudzu1 (talk) 15:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

The SNC was not formed in 2005. This is nonsense. There may have been a group of the same name at that time, and some people may claim that they are linked, but the SNC was clearly created in response to the uprising of 2011. Please change this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.243.232.187 (talk) 13:49, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Turkey/Tunisia?
Can we get a source for Turkey and Tunisia recognising the SNC, please? 48Lugur (talk) 04:01, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

France recognition
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe called the Syrian National Council "the legitimate interlocutor with whom we want to continue working." ... The Council's leader, Burhan Ghalioun, interpreted the French comments as a victory. "We cannot have greater, more important recognition than what the minister just said. ... We have been recognized," Ghalioun told reporters afterward. Japinderum (talk) 09:23, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Terrorist group?
When I first came to this page, it said the organization was a terrorist group. Apparently this was the result of vandalism that has occurred several times in recent days. Might want to semi-protect the page so that more people won't get confused if they happen upon this page at the wrong moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brandonlee25 (talk • contribs) 19:08, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Recognition from the United States?
Hillary Clinton has met with them: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/clinton-meets-with-syria-opposition/2011/12/06/gIQApzQ9ZO_story.html Does that mean the US recognize the Syrian National Council as the legitimate rulers of Syria? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.182.146.36 (talk) 20:36, 6 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Not unless a top U.S. official speaking for the government says so. -Kudzu1 (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Secretary of State is high enough for me. I'll have somebody from the IRC do the changes to the map.  Flutter shy  !xmcuvg2MH 01:53, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The US does not recognize the SNC as the legitimate government of Syria, they merely recognize them as a political organization/body. The Assad Governments ambassador to the United States is still accredited, ect.XavierGreen (talk) 02:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Map
States that have not supported Syrian National Council yet? What does this mean? This statement implies eventual support for this foriegn based group will be granted by the countries in this color.

Libya's position
Today the Libyan authorities expelled the Syrian Arab Republic (Baathist regime) ambassador from its embassy in Tripoli. So this move effectively means that the whole time that this article has said that Libya "diplomatically recognised [the] SNC as the sole legitimate government of Syria", in actuality the Syrian regime still had an embassy up and running in Tripoli, which means that Libya never officially cut ties with the current Syrian government. Instead it appears that Libya has a position similar to that of the United States, France, UK, and the Gulf monarchies, where although they are openly supporting the rebellion, they haven't completely severed all ties with the Baathist regime. --Tocino 19:58, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

unsourced personal commentary
A "new" account has re added this: it looks like unsourced personal commentary.--Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Government in exile status
The fact that the SNC aspires to be recognized as a government in exile, even with Libya recognizing it as such, is clearly insufficient for any such categorizing or even stating that it is partially recognized as such, at least not without mentioning that partially in this case means recognized by one country, Libya. I have edited the article to reflect this position. __meco (talk) 15:07, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

New leader of syrian opposition
Can I go ahead and change the name of the leader in the article?

in english: http://www.firstpost.com/world/syrian-national-council-elects-kurd-as-its-new-leader-338129.html in swedish: http://svt.se/nyheter/varlden/uppsalabo-leder-syrisk-opposition

Phaenara (talk) 07:49, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * If that's what the sources say, go right ahead. And add the source, at least the English-language one, as reference, enclosed in . __meco (talk) 12:23, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

SNC 'runs the Free Syrian Army' - reference #12
Reference #12 has nothing to do with the statement it is attached to, can we get an actual reference to support the SNCs link to the FSA? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.64.197.170 (talk) 04:19, 22 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Since the numbering of references is dynamic it is no longer #12 after you removed it. In any case, I have added a standard citation request for this text. __meco (talk) 08:38, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

United States
Position towards Syrian National Council updated for 31 Oct 2012.-Rahulkris999 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:33, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Support and Recognition.
"Prior to joining the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the Syrian National Council had been recognised as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people by several UN member states."

This is pure political spin and I was surprised to read it. The fact would be that the Prior to... The SNC was not recognized as representative of Syria by the vast majority of the UN member states. Or even more objectively that the SNC is not recognized as representative of the Syrian people except by a few states.

There's little point in an article if it's used to do little but serve as an attempt to influence political discourse. Truly a trash article. I've donated ever penny it's worth. Two times it's value in fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.218.228 (talk) 20:40, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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