Today at the Farnesina the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Vincenzo Amendola\u00a0met\u00a0Nasr al-Hariri, chief negotiator of the opposition “Syrian Negotiating Commission” (SNC) and members of the delegation: Mohamad Jamal Soliman, Hanadi Abou Arab, Hind Kabawat, Abdulahad Astepho.<\/p>\n
After discussing the current critical situation in Syria, Amendola thanked Hariri and the SNC for the efforts made to find a political solution to the major crisis that has been severely affecting Syria for the past seven years. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Undersecretary Amendola reaffirmed that the the US, Britain and France carried out\u00a0” a limited and targeted\u00a0 strike”\u00a0on Saturday morning in response to the\u00a0Douma chemical arrack.<\/p>\n
Amendola said to his interlocutors that Italy has always strongly condemned the use of chemical weapons, which represents a war crime and a very serious breach of international law. He then went on to add: \u201cthe use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime can no longer be tolerated\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Undersecretary also expressed Italy’s support for the UN-led negotiations coordinated by Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, and the efforts made to find a diplomatic solution according to UN resolution 2254. In this respect Undesecretary Amendola said that the position taken by the SNC, which never vetoed the implementation of the resolution, deserved appreciation.<\/p>\n
Amendola said that there could be no long-term solution without a political process, and highlighted the role played by Europe\u2019s role, also in view of the second EU\/UN conference \u201cSupporting the Future of Syria and the Region\u201d to be co-chaired by the UN and the EU. The event will take place in Brussels on 24 and 25 April next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today at the Farnesina the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Vincenzo Amendola\u00a0met\u00a0Nasr al-Hariri, chief negotiator of the opposition “Syrian Negotiating Commission” (SNC) and members of the delegation: Mohamad Jamal Soliman, Hanadi Abou Arab, Hind Kabawat, Abdulahad Astepho. After discussing the current critical situation in Syria, Amendola thanked Hariri and the SNC […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,26,399],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-onu","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","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=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}