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EU rejects French call for intervention in Syria
Published: 24 November, 2011, 17:16
A child taking part in a rally in support of the Syrian regime, holds a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (AFP Photo / Filippo Monteforte)
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The EU has stopped short of endorsing a French proposal for EU-backed humanitarian corridors that would allow aid groups and observers into Syria.
France has called for a “secured zone to protect civilians” in Syria. It is the first time a major Western country has suggested international intervention in the country.
Speaking on French radio on Thursday, foreign minister Alain Juppé said he was speaking with partners in the United Nations, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Arab League about the humanitarian corridors.
Alain Juppé says the situation in Syria is “no longer tenable” and accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad of “repression of a savagery we have not seen in a long time.”
On Wednesday, after a meeting with the Syrian National Council leader Burhan Ghalioun, Alain Juppé described the Council as a "legitimate interlocutor" and said France would seek formal recognition for the group from the Arab League and other allies.
"It's about the political actions that we continue to help the Syrian National Council with. It's upon request from the Syrian National Council that, with our European partners, we will examine the possibility of launching humanitarian initiatives in order to relieve the population from the considerable pain it's enduring," he said.
Ghalioun said the Syrian National Council was seeking co-operation with countries in Europe and the Arab League, "to provide serious protection for civilians and to stop the killing that has been taking place for the past eight months."
He added that he hoped to secure a UN resolution "to protect civilians and let observers enter Syria for the sake of stopping the killing."
Meanwhile, three American students arrested in Cairo have been released, Paula reports.
The Paris Institute's John Laughland suggests that despite Western powers saying they are only trying to get humanitarian aid into the country, their actions are aimed at bringing down the regime in Syria.
He called for “Russia and the world in general" to regard “this initiative with the greatest possible skepticism.”
“I would warn against any international presence,”he told RT.
“If a humanitarian corridor is opened, it will allow, among other things, secret service agents to penetrate Syria. They will presumably be there with the goal of overthrowing the regime.”An uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad started eight months ago. Since then, an estimated 3,500 people have died in clashes with government forces.
Meanwhile, members of the Arab League have gathered in Cairo to hold talks on the ongoing violence in Syria after President Bashar Assad failed to end his crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Earlier this month, Arab League foreign ministers suspended Syria from the group in response to its violent suppression of anti-government rallies.
24.11.2011, 17:05
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It is not for civilian protection. That is just the cover story. History is repeating itself. Remember the "humanitarian intervention" in the Serbian province of Kosovo? The state returned fire on KLA insurgents who were killing dozens of police officers, nuns, monks, Albanians working for the state, Albanians who didnt want to join the KLA, etc. Btw, the KLA was trained by the CIA in Albania. They staged a massacre at Racak that were really dead insurgents who were mutilated post mortem. Forensics found gunfire on their hands...
Once that mess was cooked up, and the 78 days of bombing was carried out, a US base was built on Kosovo, the one Milosevic refused to allow. Bondsteel is now the largest base in the Balkans. Peacekeeping was never carried out, and is not to this very day. NATO chose openly the side of these extermists and repackaged them as Kosovo Security. NATO is exceeding their status neutral UN mandate to this very day in Mitrovica. With 250,000 Christians dead or expelled, the "peacekeeping mission" should be complete. Bondsteel...what is it there for?
Twelve years later, the story line in Libya is similar, although those insurgents are real Muslim extremists and not marginal ones, insurgents attacking military barracks, false flag operation at Lockerbie and newer cooked up humanitarian allegations, followed by tens of thousands of air strikes, dead innocents, and D or E uraniuim. What do you suppose that base will be named? http://www.voltairenet.org/Lybia-Human-rights-impostors-used
Get it? creat chaos, befriend and train anti government insurgents, lie about who did the atrocities by pointing finger at the .gov being toppled, swoop in and rescue the "poor civilians", build the next base.