Wed Jun 13, 2012, 10:43 AM

Syria: France calls for UN to enforce Annan plan

Source: BBC News

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he will call on the UN Security Council to make mediator Kofi Annan's Syria peace plan mandatory.

France would propose that Mr Annan's six-point plan be enforced under the UN's Chapter Seven provision, he said.

Mr Fabius told a news conference in Paris that the conflict in Syria had become a "civil war".

His remarks echoed the words of the head of UN peacekeeping operations, Herve Ladsous, on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18428782

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8 replies	Author	Time	Post
Syria: France calls for UN to enforce Annan plan (Original post)	dipsydoodle	Jun 2012	OP
Chapter Seven -	pinto	Jun 2012	#1
In Mr Fabius's dreams.	dipsydoodle	Jun 2012	#2
as long as both sides of the conflict are receiving arms from outsiders	maddezmom	Jun 2012	#3
Chapter 7 is a red line, and this "socialist" knows it.	David__77	Jun 2012	#4
CH 7, that's how the UN got action taken on the Korean peninsula in 1950	may3rd	Jun 2012	#6
yeah, good luck with that , France	may3rd	Jun 2012	#5
Nobody is going to do anything, because they don't what to get into a ground war.n/t	hrmjustin	Jun 2012	#7
Apres Vous, Frenchie.	hardtravelin	Jun 2012	#8

Response to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Wed Jun 13, 2012, 11:02 AM

pinto (97,891 posts)

1. Chapter Seven -

"A Chapter Seven resolution in the Security Council would allow for action to be backed up by force, which fellow council members Russia and China would be unlikely to accept. But Mr Fabius said he hoped that Russia would agree to the proposal."

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Wed Jun 13, 2012, 11:08 AM

dipsydoodle (32,649 posts)