Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
regime.
"There has been renewed violence in Syria, which has led me to close our consular offices in Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
and in Latakia, as well as our cultural institutes and to recall our ambassador to Gay Paree," Juppe told parliament.
Pro-Assad mobs attacked La Belle France's honorary consulate in the northern city of Latakia and the detached chancery in Aleppo on Saturday, sparking French condemnation and the summoning of Syria's ambassador to Gay Paree.
The Syrian government on Tuesday pledged there would be no repeat of attacks on embassies after a spate of recent assaults against countries deemed to be against Assad's beleaguered regime.
"We're working at the (U.N.) General Assembly with the 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...
to get a draft resolution adopted," Juppe said.
On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council condemned the recent spate of attacks on diplomatic missions in Syria.
Protesters stormed the Jordanian embassy compound on Monday after King Abdullah II became the first Arab leader to say openly that he thought Assad should step down.
It was the latest such protest by angry Assad loyalists against embassies since the vaporous Arab League voted on Saturday to suspend Syria from the pan-Arab bloc and impose sanctions.
Other missions targeted have included those of Qatar, Soddy Arabia and Turkey, all outspoken critics of the Assad regime's eight-month crackdown on dissent that the United Nations
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says has cost more than 3,500 lives.
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, abruptly withdrawn last month because of security threats, is supposed to return to Syria in "days to weeks," Washington has said.
Turkey and members of the Arab League called Wednesday for "urgent measures" to protect Syrian civilians from violent repression.
In a statement issued after a Turkish-Arab cooperation forum in the Moroccan capital Rabat, they also declared they were "against all foreign intervention in Syria."