The success of the new international peace envoy to Syria depends on states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and not on Syria.

The success of the new international peace envoy to Syria depends on states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and not on Syria, the Syrian Information Minister told reporters in Damascus Monday.

"Ibrahimi's success depends on certain states such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey respecting his mission, by closing their borders to armed men, and by ceasing to provide weapons," Minister Omran al-Zoabi said.

Ibrahimi, a veteran Algerian diplomat who is expected to visit Syria soon, was appointed to replace former UN secretary general Kofi Annan as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria after Annan's six-point peace plan failed to stop the terrorist violence in the country.

In a 90-minute press conference, the Syrian information minister reiterated the Syrian regime's official position that the crisis in the country was prompted not by the repression of the terrorist acts, but by an "international conspiracy."

"I don't understand how there can be a revolution if what is happening is killing and kidnapping," said Zoabi. "What is happening is a conspiracy, an aggression by proxy, and its tools are hidden."

Zoabi went on to say that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad "welcomes any initiative to help Syria overcome the conspiracy that it is suffering from, and welcomes any initiative that doesn't affect our national sovereignty and security."