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"Mr President, like Iraq, Syria is an ethnic mosaic; like Egypt, it has a strong army; and, like in Libya, Bashar al-Assad will stop at nothing, including massacring his own people.
The EU strategy for this, the most difficult of the headaches to emerge from the Arab Spring, is to do everything to ensure that nothing that could go wrong does so. This is our first precondition. Secondly, we must have a strategy that is credible, responsible and humanitarian. The most important issue regarding credibility concerns Chancellor Merkel’s visit to China last week. How can we talk about China and Russia when we ask ourselves what, while there, she said and did to bring China over to our side in the United Nations regarding Syria? She did nothing.
How can we talk about credibility while European companies are aiding the Syrian regime with Internet censorship tools, and while they continue to receive EU subsidies? Moreover, in Syria, I saw Iraqi and Palestinian refugee camps; traces of our latest mistakes in that region of the world. How can we talk about a humanitarian strategy while we cannot manage to reach a consensus on opening humanitarian corridors in order to remove those refugees from there, along with the more recent Syrian refugees?
Credibility, responsibility and action are needed from the European Union if the problems in Syria are not to become even worse."@en1
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