France Warns against Outside Military Action in Syria
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned Monday that any foreign military action in Syria would only aggravate the situation after the Arab League proposed sending in U.N.-Arab peacekeepers.
"We think that today any external intervention of a military nature would only worsen the situation, all the more given that there will not be a decision by the Security Council, which is the only body able to authorize military intervention," Juppe said in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
He was answering a journalist's question about the possibility of French peacekeepers being deployed in Syria.
The 22-nation Arab League agreed Sunday to open contacts with Syria's opposition and ask the United Nations to form a joint peacekeeping force to the nation.
The proposal came a week after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution, backed by Arab and European states, aimed at ending 11 months of bloodshed in Syria.
Juppe said that France would support an Arab League initiative "to ask the General Assembly to get condemnation finally from the United Nations."
"We support this initiative, we're working on it in New York," he said.
Juppe said France's ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevallier, would remain in place despite the United States having closed its embassy and Gulf Arab states having recalled their own envoys.
"We have secured the embassy, because the risk is very high. We have reduced staff: there is now the ambassador and a few colleagues," Juppe said.
"We are very careful not to expose our diplomats, but at the same time the opposition, the Syrians who are fighting barehanded, want us to be there, because it's a contact, a presence," he said.
13 February 2012, 19:46
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I guess the warriors of Hariri's Al Qaida - Akkar and Tripoli Brigades and their Christian Sunni Brothers, aka March 14 Christian Sunnis, shall continue to teach the Assad regime the second lesson of its life, the first being the one they taught them when they used to crawl to Anjar to scheme against their Lebanese brothers. No wonder they are sure of themselves when they have been predicting the "Game Over" for the regime. ya heik warriors ya bala
14 February 2012, 00:43
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And that is what you wish, a regional war because of your sunnites vs shiites war mentality! Insane you are to wish the region on fire. do you think our precious Lebanon will be safe from this.
Lebanese you only wish the evil and the destruction! What a pest on earth.
14 February 2012, 01:09
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I also wish to see Arabs in Syria .. And see them fail miserably as they always do
14 February 2012, 04:19
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The Arabs did send their troops to Lebanon in 1976, all nations withdrew their troops when they were asked to except the Syrian regime, the same way as all militias give up their weapons except the Syrian/Iranian supported one. The problem is that the regime can't win the 11 months revolt of the people, Bashar was given a chance to reform, never done it before and he won't do it. Hizbollah has been given a chance and it is very unfortunate to see the war come back so that the militia is disarmed.
14 February 2012, 07:09
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the filthy zionist media war terrorists still hallucinate about assad falling and getting rid of our glorious resistance.
but they are unable to do that themselves, their usa masters didn't do it, and look their eu friends warn against it.
so all they have left is more hallucinations.
14 February 2012, 13:51
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Lol again with the peaceful "barehanded" bs? Juppé needs to really get back on the meds.
