Fourth Meeting of the Group of Friends of Syrian People Kicks off in Marrakech

Marrakech, Morocco, December 12 (QNA) -The fourth meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People" group opened in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, on Wednesday. HE Qatar's Prime Minister And Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al Thani, leads his country's delegation to the meeting. Delegations representing 120 countries in addition to other representatives of a number of regional and international organizations are attending the meeting in addition to the United Nations which attends it for the first time. The meeting followed three previous meetings held in each of Tunis on February 24, 2012, Istanbul on April first and then Paris on July 06, 2012 respectively. The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, or the Syrian National Coalition, formed earlier in November during a conference in Doha, Qatar, has been calling for increased international support, including military material for opposition forces battling the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria for nearly two years. The U.S., European countries and other GCC and arab countries declared their recognition of the new Syrian opposition coalition as the "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people. (QNA)