PARIS — French President Francois Hollande is calling on Syria’s opposition to form a provisional government and says France would recognise it once such a government is formed.
France’s President Francois Hollande speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in 1944, at the city hall in Paris, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Hollande’s announcement in a speech Monday to France’s ambassadors amounts to new diplomatic pressure against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime amid escalating bloodshed in the country.
Syria’s opposition remains badly fragmented, and it is far from clear whether such a provisional government could be formed anytime soon.
But Hollande’s announcement, believed to be the first of its kind, appeared aimed to give an impetus to the creation of such a government.
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I am making a post on this subject. Possible your warning of massacre and a move to intervene if “chemical weapons” are used are connected?
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