{"id":16118,"date":"2013-08-27T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/08\/20130827_siriaitnonsenzaonu-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:05:36","slug":"20130827_siriaitnonsenzaonu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/08\/20130827_siriaitnonsenzaonu\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Bonino, Italy will not participate in absence of UN mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cItaly will not actively take part in military solutions in the absence of a UN Security Council mandate\u201d, Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino\u2019s said in a briefing before the joint Upper and Lower House Foreign Affairs Commissions on the latest developments in Syria and Egypt. For Italy, the minister explained, a UN Security Council mandate is \u201cthe only legal framework of reference\u201d for a military intervention in Syria.<\/P>
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Assad\u2019s use of sarin gas increasingly considered probable <\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cThe evidence we have reinforces the hypothesis that the Syrian forces have made massive use of lethal chemical agents, particularly sarin gas\u201d, which is \u201cthe most lethal\u201d, the minister asserted, underscoring that \u201cthe systematic and intentional use of chemical weapons against civilians is a war crime as defined in the Statute of the International Criminal Court\u201d.<\/P>
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No military solution<\/STRONG><\/P>
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In any case, the minister reiterated that \u201cthere is no military solution to the Syrian conflict\u201d. \u201cWe note\u201d the U.S.\u2019s cancellation of the Geneva 2 preparatory meeting, and \u201cwe understand the reasons\u201d for it, but \u201cwe are convinced that a negotiated solution is the only sustainable one, and for this reason the commitment to a Geneva 2, or whatever it may be called, remains valid\u201d, she added.<\/P>
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Egypt: more painful days ahead, but no going back to 2011<\/STRONG><\/P>
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On the situation in Egypt, the minister said that \u201ca pure and simple return to the past is out of the question. There are probably other even more painful days ahead, but there is no way that we can go back to 2011, because the Egyptian people\u2019s awakening has been real\u201d.<\/P>
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Risk of terrorism beyond North African borders <\/STRONG><\/P>
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And the minister also sounded an alarm: \u201cI fear that efforts to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood could push some of them into extremist positions, with the additional risk of the formation of terrorist groups, which would not confine themselves to Egypt or North Africa and would have great freedom of movement\u201d.<\/P>
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EU failure at mediation<\/STRONG><\/P>
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Before the massacres in the squares of Cairo, \u201cfor once, just as we had all wanted, Europe spoke in a single voice. But that mediation was a failure. And it is hard to have to admit it, harder that if it had been too slow or even non-existent\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cItaly will not actively take part in military solutions in the absence of a UN Security Council mandate\u201d, Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino\u2019s said in a briefing before the joint Upper and Lower House Foreign Affairs Commissions on the latest developments in Syria and Egypt. For Italy, the minister explained, a UN Security Council […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,6,76],"class_list":["post-16118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}