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"Mr President, Syria is clearly becoming more and more of a witches’ brew of conflicts. Alongside those opposition activists who are demanding reforms, there are others who will clearly only be satisfied with the fall or removal of President Assad. In addition, ultra-religious factions are increasingly getting involved, and they now sense an opportunity to found an Islamist state. The fact that Syria plays an important strategic role in the region makes things more complicated still. The multi-religious tensions are being intensified by ethnic conflicts. These are carried over into already unstable neighbouring countries by refugees, and the result could be the development of something like a conflagration.
As a failure of the peace plan is, I would argue, conceivable, it is important, at any event, to keep turning up the pressure on Syria. A military intervention, however, could cause more harm than good, in my view. This is because, unlike in Libya, there is no clear front between the regime and the rebels that could be defended. Rather, the whole thing is slowly sliding into a mass slaughter in individual city districts.
The fact that there is no unified political opposition is a further cause of confusion. The example of Libya has shown us that a fall of the regime would not necessarily lead to an improvement in the human rights situation. If radical Islamists get into power after the fall of the regime, there could be a real threat of bloodbaths, given the prevailing ethnic tensions, and that is something that, from the European Union’s side, we should definitely prevent."@en1
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