Lebanese newspaper reports on "secret" deal reached in Doha on Syrian crisis

The Terms of the Agreement

The agreement - which was to be carried out following the fall of Bashar al-Asad and the rise of a new regime - stipulated the following:

1. Reducing the number of the Syrian Army troops from 600,000 to 100,000.

2. Syria, under the new regime, is not entitled to reinstate the Golan Heights, except through diplomatic and political tools and aside from any military actions.

3. A peace treaty is to be signed between Israel and Syria under the supervision of Washington, the European Union, and Qatar. A water pipe is to be extended from the Ataturk Dam in Turkey through the Syrian territories all the way to Israel.

4. Under the supervision and assistance of Washington, the new Syrian regime shall get rid of all the chemical and biological weapons and missiles of all kinds.

5. The new Syrian regime shall undertake, in writing, to stop demanding to reinstate the Iskenderun territory and shall relinquish some border towns that are inhabited by Turkmen in the governorates of Aleppo and Idlib and give them to Turkey. In addition, all the fighters of the PKK shall be expelled and the fugitives shall be handed over in addition to blacklisting the PKK.

6. The new Syrian regime shall annul all the former agreements signed with the Russian and Chinese companies in the field of underground wealth exploration and weapons' deals.

7. Qatar shall be allowed to install a gas pipe through the Syrian territories all the way to Turkey and from there to Europe.

8. Qatar and the UAE shall pledge to reconstruct Syria, provided that the privileges of the gas and oil exploration in the Syrian lands and the Mediterranean Sea are given to the Qatari and Emirati companies exclusively.

9. Limiting the relations with Iran, Russia and China and boycotting ties with Hizballah and the Palestinian movements that refuse to abandon resistance.

10. An Islamic, non radical regime shall be established in Syria, the leaders of which are to start implementing the terms of this agreement as soon as the opposition accesses power.

"The signatories of the agreement back then agreed on escalating the confrontations and increasing the military pressure on the regime in the next few months. They were expecting that the regime will collapse between April and May 2013. The available pieces of information also indicate that the field developments - that reached a pinnacle with the fall of the strategic Al-Qusayr village and the Turkish popular protests, as well as the escalation of the already-stringent Russian position - tipped the balance. Furthermore, the fact that Al-Asad's regime did not collapse within months as expected led to failure of the plan and to the fall of those who were working on it. The change in Qatar thus occurred by the end of the spring season and the beginning of the summer. This was followed by the resounding fall of the MB rule in Egypt. However, this does not mean that Syria is shielded against a political change under the terms of a new political administration, the features of which will start to emerge by early 2014.

Al-Safir website