France to Close Syria Embassy
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France will close its embassy in Syria to denounce the "scandalous" repression by President Bashar Assad's regime, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday at the close of an EU summit.
French Foreign Minister "Alain Juppe and I have decided to close our embassy in Syria," Sarkozy told a news conference.
"What is going on is scandalous, there are more than 8,000 dead, hundreds of children, and the city of Homs faces the risk of being wiped off the map. This is absolutely unacceptable," Sarkozy said.
He said the Syrian government's response to attempts to evacuate two injured French reporters, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels -- finally evacuated to Lebanon on Thursday -- has been "particularly unacceptable".
Sarkozy also underlined that the EU in its final conclusions had recognized the Syrian National Council "as a legitimate representative of Syrians".
"I am in favor of organizing, at least on Syria's borders, humanitarian zones enabling people persecuted by the Syrian regime to leave," he added.
02 March 2012, 14:06
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Let's wait for the next journalist that would be stuck in Syria, they would reopen it as they did by sending last week the french ambassador in Syria.
02 March 2012, 14:23
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something ambigious in the french position
the libyan scenario didnot work out in syria ?
do the french people knows the whole truth about the extent of french implication in syria ? and to what extent ?
merci Mr le president
02 March 2012, 14:26
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so everybody who needs the french embassy facilities has to come to beirut..pay the taxi.. pay the hotel.. and wait in line.. allah allah ya zaman..do u remember anything? like FTAH ALTABBOUN WLA..
02 March 2012, 15:49
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Nothing is more scandalous than the immoral West and its unconditional support of Israel, the most criminal nation on the face of the earth. Nothing is more scandalous than the immoral West trampling on the basic human rights of the Palestinians who are living in the biggest open air prison on the face of the earth. Close your embassies, punks. They are nothing more than dens of spies and planning places of the immoral West's filthy policies. And this idiot with a filthy half ancestry and his stupid presidency have the nerve to talk.
02 March 2012, 16:12
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Words are free, close embassy or open embassy. I think if that man loose the election as I wish he looses for the sake of the economy and foreign policies...
Wait and see
02 March 2012, 17:15
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the picture says 'give me nxt presidency n ill do watever u ask'
02 March 2012, 20:24
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Sarkozy is as racist as Bashar al Assad, this means nothing. An evil hating an evil.
