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"Mr President, unusually – I must say – I find myself actually agreeing with much that Baroness Ashton had to say in her statement. It was modest, with no EU hubris, and no desperate search for some sort of EU role. The harsh fact is that dictators such as Bashir al-Assad only understand force and, as many colleagues have pointed out, it is only the threat of the use of force that has forced action and broken the political deadlock.
The Russian proposal clearly has some merit and some attraction, but we should be under no illusions: it was cooked up in Moscow between the Russian and Syrian foreign ministers. It has been effective in delaying military action by the US and her allies, and the danger is that Assad will merely continue to use a full range of weapons, short of WMD, to press home his military advantage. Yesterday, for example, Syrian government aircraft staged three raids over rebel-held areas of Damascus. The war goes on.
It seems to me that we need to press for an immediate ceasefire and for chemical weapons to be brought under international control. May I just say that the key issue is that agreements and international conventions have to be enforced, and therefore we need to give full support to the United States in her endeavours."@en1
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