NATO chief calls for firm international response. PHOTO: REUTERS
China said on Monday it was seriously concerned about any unilateral military action against Syria after US President Barack Obama delayed a military response to last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus until after a congressional vote.
The United States has explained to China its evidence on chemical weapons use in Syria, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily news briefing.
China has said that no side should rush to pre-judge the results of an investigation by UN chemical weapons experts in Syria, who it said should carry out an objective and impartial investigation in consultation with the Syrian government.
In a related development, French intelligence report shown to lawmakers blames the Syrian President Bashar al Assad for carrying out a ‘massive and coordinated’ chemical attack in Damascus on Aug. 21
The nine-page document — drawn up by France’s military and foreign intelligence services — listed five points that suggested Assad’s fighters were behind the assault, the source told Reuters.
Meanwhile, speaking in Brussels, Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said a firm international response is needed against chemical weapons attack in Syria,
“We believe that these unspeakable actions which claimed the lives of hundreds of men, women and children cannot be ignored,” Rasmussen told a news conference.
“I think there is an agreement that we need a firm international response in order to avoid that chemical attacks take place in the future. It would send, I would say, a dangerous signal to dictators all over the world if we stand idly by and don’t react,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2013.
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US, UK & France want to kill another one million innocent people. The result will be the same as in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt etc.
Nobody is permanent friend or foe in international politics . It's all business of demolition , deconstruction and then reconstruction .
China is no friend of Muslims.
Unbelievable. France, and NATO generally, have roamed around the Middle-East, and further East, killing many thousand of people with Libya being a dreadful case in point. Now the French, America, UK etc have created a false flag scenario in Syria, and they are pretending to be outraged. I am sorry France, US, UK. You will have to improve your act. Only the low functioning believe your arrogant nonsense. Fortunately, Russia and China do not.