Mr. Farouq Al Habib:

I believe that in order to have a solution in the long term, people need to have hope and to believe they can get their rights without the need to use violence. This is our main demand. Because of the continuous killing in Syria and because of the lack of a political vision, people from all sides use violence to achieve what they believe are their rights. We believe democracy can offer a platform and create a path for the Syrian people to live in peace, get their rights and get rid of dictatorship and extremism in Syria.

On whether international intervention can help achieve that, based on our bloody experience of the past years, it has not helped. There was international intervention, even if all of the world has claimed it has not interfered in Syria. Of course there was intervention. The war in Syria has tended gradually towards being a proxy war between many regional and international players, and we as Syrians pay the price for that. Now the crisis is spilling over, and I admit that we as Syrians are not able to end this catastrophe alone. We need support from the international community, based on values and not only on the interests of states. We need to stop all foreign fighters from being able to come to Syria. When we say "all," I do not mean only Sunni fighters who come from Libya or Tunisia. We also mean the jet fighters that come from Iran, the Hezbollah and Afghanistan. When we call for a stop to the shipment of arms, we mean arms for all parties. Until now, there has been no international pressure to do this. All we have seen are resolutions from the Security Council and meetings and speeches. The Security Council itself does not respect the resolutions it makes.