A government-run newspaper dismissed the latest unity agreement between the exiled opposition groups as "won't change a thing of the opposition's fragmented nature and its lack of public support."

"They will remain mere skeletons and groups that move under the West's orders against their country's interests and stability," the Tishreen Daily, the mouthpiece of the Syrian government, editorialized on Monday.

Syria's exiled opposition groups convening in the Qatari capital of Doha signed an agreement on Sunday evening to form a new coalition called the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, in the hope of having a unified entity to face the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The new coalition will be mainly composed of opposition groups outside Syria and also activists from inside the country as well as rebels' commanders, reports said.

Once the new coalition earns international approval, its members will form an interim government in exile and will call for a national conference once the Syrian current administration is ousted, according to a draft of the agreement.

The exiled Syrian opposition has been convening in Doha since last week under international pressures to unite its ranks.

On Sunday evening, Maath al-Khatib was elected as the president of the new coalition, while naming Riad Seif and Suheir Atassi as vice presidents.

Tishreen, the daily, said the opposition's national and intellectual structure is "tenuous", adding that the participants in the Doha meeting have connections with the governments that support terrorism in Syria.

It also charged that the personal ambitions of the participants have overwhelmed their agendas and will further increase their fragmentation and differences, "which are always concentrated on the gains of each party and the positions and interests that they are trying to attain." Endi

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