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4 days 6 hours ago - US

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has voiced concern about violence in Syria, but said the alliance has "no intention" of taking military action against the regime.

"We strongly condemn the behavior of the Syrian security forces and their crackdowns on the Syrian population and we urge the Syrian leadership to accommodate the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people," he told a news  conference during an alliance summit in Chicago.

"But again NATO has no intention to intervene in Syria."

Tags Anders Fogh Rasmussen, foreign intervention, NATO, syria
5 weeks 5 days ago - Iran

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council,  Saeed Jalili, says the solution in Syria is democracy through elections, not foreign intervention.

[Source: Reuters]

Tags democracy, foreign intervention, Saeed Jalili, syria
13 weeks 1 day ago - France

The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) said on Wednesday it was coming to the view that military intervention was the only solution to the nearly year-old crisis.

"We are really close to seeing this military intervention as the only solution. There are two evils, military intervention or protracted civil war," Basma Kodmani, a senior SNC official, told a news conference in Paris. 

Kodmani said the SNC was also proposing that Russia, an ally of Damascus, help persuade Damascus to guarantee safe passage to humanitarian convoys ferrying aid to civilians. 

She said the SNC proposed setting up corridors from Lebanon to the besieged city of Homs, from Turkey to Idlib and from Jordan to Deraa.

The SNC will also urge Egypt, at a Friends of Syria meeting due to be held in Tunis on Friday, to restrict access to the Suez Canal to any ships carrying weapons to the Syrian government. [Reuters]

Tags foreign intervention, humanitarian corridors, syria, Syrian National Council
18 weeks 33 min ago - Belgium

NATO is not planning or even "thinking" of intervening in Syria, the alliance's most senior officer said on Thursday. 

"There is no planning and we are not thinking about an intervention," General Knud Bartels, head of NATO's Military Committee, told a news conference in Brussels. [AFP]

 

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30 weeks 5 days ago - Syria

The state-run news agency SANA released a picture of Syrians outside the Turkish embassy in Damascus on Saturday. SANA said the protesters gathered to voice rejection of foreign intervention in Syria's internal affairs. [EPA/SANA]

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32 weeks 6 days ago - Libya

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has assailed people who have questioned the wisdom of the joint US-NATO campaign against Gaddafi, saying "the critics have really been proven wrong."

He defended the Libyan operation as he got a new assessment from US and NATO commanders on what steps are necessary to bring the mission to an end.

"I have to tell you that at the time that this mission [was] embarked on, there were a lot of critics about whether it was  he right mission, at the right time with the right force, whether NATO could do the job, he told a group of international troops at a naval base in Sicily, where allies have launched thousands of air missions for the Libya operation.

"There were an awful lot of question about the mission overall," Panetta noted. {AP]

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