The US openly speculate about an air strike against the Assad troops – there is a clear warning from Damascus: Such an action would benefit the terrorist group al-Qaeda, the Syrian deputy foreign minister. One brochure order in the region, only the “hatred of the Americans.”
For more than two years of civil war raging in Syria, now could be an intervention by US troops imminent. International such military action is hotly debated – and the government in Damascus has intervened repeatedly in the debate. A strongly worded warning sent the Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad toward Washington. A possible US military intervention in his country he described as “support for al-Qaeda.”
In an interview with the BBC Mekdad also stated for the attacks with chemical weapons in Syria are not the forces of President Bashar al-Assad responsible, but the US-backed groups.
An application of the US in Syria would strengthen the “hatred of the Americans” and destabilize the entire Middle East, Mekdad said in the interview published on Monday. The US had declared on Sunday that there was clear evidence that Damascus has the nerve gas sarin used. In an attack more than 1400 people were killed, including many children.
Even Russia has again reported doubts about the legality of an intervention. Moscow has asked the United States vigorously to prove their allegations of poison gas to the regime in Syria with evidence. “Washington has given us material, but contained nothing specific about where the samples were taken and by whom,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow on Monday.
“When we asked for details, they said our American partners that these are secret,” Lavrov said, according to Interfax news agency. “That does not convince us. So no cooperation is possible,” he said. Russia is a close ally of Syria.
Even the influential foreign policy Alexei Puschkow called for concrete evidence of the United States. “The said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry nerve agent sarin could also be used by the rebels”, said the head of the Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
China warns Arab League forces to intervene
China warned against American unilateralism. It was informed by the government in Washington about the status of the investigation into the poisonous gas case, Hong Lei, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Now, neither side should take hasty steps. First, the results of the UN observer would have to wait on site.
The Arab League called on the international community to intervene on the other hand, against the leadership in Damascus. The United Nations and the international community would have a “chilling and necessary measures” against the perpetrators of this crime to initiate it said in the final declaration of Foreign Ministers of the Organization in Cairo on Sunday.
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