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| France urges U.N. intervention | |
| 2012-07-29 | |
France urged the U.N. Security Council to rapidly intervene in the conflict to pre-empt an all-out civil war. French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday he would try again to convince Russia and China to support harder sanctions against Assad in order to break a diplomatic deadlock and prevent more bloodshed.
"The regime of Bashar al-Assad knows it is doomed and so it will use force until the very end," he said. "The role of the member states of the U.N. Security Council is to step in as quickly as possible." "The role of the countries of the Security Council is to intervene as quickly as possible," he said, specifically addressing Damascus allies Russia and China and warning that failure to do so would mean "chaos and civil war." "The only solution which will allow Syrians to reconcile and reunite is the departure of Bashar al-Assad and the formation of a transitional government," Hollande said. "It is not too late but with every passing day it's more repression, upheavals and consequently massacres." | |
| Posted by:Steve White |