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"Mr President, High Representative and Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, as Baroness Ashton has said, the situation in Syria is getting worse by the day, with an extremely high toll in terms of human life. You mentioned the figures released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: more than 4 000 people, of whom 1 000 are members of the security forces, and this augurs a bloody civil war in the country. Statements of condemnation have come from all sides – the United States, the European Council, the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly and the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union. However, Baroness Ashton, I believe that the time has come to move from words to action, because condemnation alone will not bring a halt to this situation. On the economic side, what can we do? You got it right, Baroness Ashton: implement the economic sanctions we have introduced, stop Syrian oil imports to the European Union and support the decisions of the Arab League and Turkey. On the political front, we should firstly support the deployment of ground forces requested by the Arab League. Secondly, we should strengthen relations with the Syrian National Council. I would also like to ask your opinion, Baroness Ashton, on the French initiative to create a humanitarian corridor protected by international troops. Lastly, we should obtain a more solid resolution from the United Nations, overcoming the reticence of some permanent members of the Security Council, such as China and Russia, whose position is absolutely unjustifiable, continuing in the vein of Resolutions 1970 and 1973, which, in the case of Libya, made it possible to put an end to a government’s criminal violence against its own people."@en1
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