The international community is trying to come up with new solutions for the Syrian crisis. A conference of the Friends of Syria group is meeting today in Paris in the presence of over 100 Western and Arab world delegations. Italy is represented by Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Marta Dass\u00f9, who explained \u201can attempt to go back to the UN Security Council for a new resolution on Art. 41 of Chapter 7, which does not envisage the use of force but that could call for new transitional instruments, a political accord that was discussed in Geneva and that it has been impossible to apply\u201d.<\/P>
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Opening the conference, French President Francois Hollande asked that five pledges be undertaken, including \u201cthe rejection of impunity for crimes\u201d, the \u201creal and effective application\u201d of economic and financial sanctions, \u201cstrengthened support to the opposition\u201d, by \u201cproviding means of communication\u201d.<\/P>
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Addressing the conference participants, head of the Syrian Opposition National Council (ONC) Abdel Basset Sayda asserted that \u201cevery measure must be taken to set up a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors\u201d.<\/P>
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Russia and China did not participate in the meeting. \u201cThe division remains the same, between Americans, on the one hand, Europeans, the Russians on the other, i.e. the fate of Assad\u201d, Under-Secretary Dass\u00f9 underscored, adding that, nevertheless, the \u201clogic of the Friends of Syria is to succeed in forming \u2013 very difficult this too \u2013 a credible and inclusive opposition that respects the rights of minorities and that can also prepare a political transition\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The international community is trying to come up with new solutions for the Syrian crisis. A conference of the Friends of Syria group is meeting today in Paris in the presence of over 100 Western and Arab world delegations. Italy is represented by Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Marta Dass\u00f9, who explained \u201can attempt to go […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,6,399],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","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=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}