{"id":20792,"date":"2012-02-27T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/02\/20120227_siria_ue-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:56:19","slug":"20120227_siria_ue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/02\/20120227_siria_ue\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: Italy cites \u201chumanitarian truce\u201d as essential. EU, new sanctions package approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Minister Giulio Terzi expressed the \u201cneed to find a way to call a humanitarian truce\u201d, in Syria. Participating in the Council of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels, which approved a new package of sanctions against the Syrian regime, the minister asserted that the Red Cross \u201cis not even able to get in\u201d to Homs. The moment is extremely critical. But after the conference in Tunis, la coalition of countries supporting the Arab League\u2019s action plan got a major boost, and therefore, the minister underscored, there is a general condition \u201cthat is moving increasingly in the direction of Assad stepping down, but everything is still up in the air\u201d. \u201cItaly\u201d, Terzi added, \u201cagrees with the European sanctions against Syria because, \u201cthere is no other way except a military intervention, which no one wants for the moment\u201d. High Representative Catherine Ashton also spoke of the humanitarian truce, launching an appeal to the UN Security Council: \u201ceveryone must assume responsibility, if we want Assad to step down we must be united\u201d. The High Representative also said that the EU \u201cfully supports\u201d the mission of Kofi Annan and Arab League efforts to seek an end to the conflict in Syria.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister Giulio Terzi expressed the \u201cneed to find a way to call a humanitarian truce\u201d, in Syria. Participating in the Council of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels, which approved a new package of sanctions against the Syrian regime, the minister asserted that the Red Cross \u201cis not even able to get in\u201d to Homs. The [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,42],"class_list":["post-20792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792","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=20792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}