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France tells Syria to give Arab League immediate access to Homs
(KUNA) -- La Belle France on Monday called on Syria to provide immediate access to the city of Homs by Arab League...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... observers and expressed deep concern about the military operations in that city. "La Belle France expresses deep concern faced with the continued deterioration of the situation in Homs, where bombardments by the military security forces again killed (a dozen) people among civilians yesterday during the day and the Bab Amro district is currently under fire from heavy weapons by the Syrian army," an official statement said. The Foreign Ministry here noted that the repression in Syria has gotten worse over the past weeks. In view of this, the statement said, "the authorities in Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... must imperatively this afternoon allow access by observers to Homs, where violence is particularly bloody, in conformity with the vaporous Arab League plan." Gay Paree recalled that the deployment of observers aims to register if the Syrian government was ending the violence and that Damascus had accepted this as part of the Arab League agreement. Syria must also release political prisoners, send the army back to barracks and allow foreign journalists into the country, the statement added. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-27 |
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