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| International Reactions to the Situation in Syria |
| (2012-05-30) |
| Last updated: 2012-05-31 13:28 EET |
The popular uprising that broke out in northern Africa and the Middle East and known as the Arab Spring have not only resulted in spectacular changes at political level, as in Tunisia and Egypt, but also led to unimaginable violence in countries such as Libya and Syria. The worsening of the situation in Syria has recently become the focus of international attention following violent reprisals by the forces loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime.
The latest episode in a series of atrocities committed by the Syrian army took place last Friday in Hula, near Homs, where more than 100 people, half of whom were children, were killed. In the opinion of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , most of the victims in Hula were actually executed. In reaction to such atrocities several EU countries alongside the US, Canada, Australia and Japan announced on Tuesday that they would expel the Syrian ambassadors from their capitals. On the same day the Romanian Foreign Ministry summoned Syria’s charge d’affaires in Bucharest for a meeting in which the Romanian authorities firmly condemned the atrocities perpetrated in Hula.
The Romanian Foreign Ministry expressed its deep indignation towards such acts which threaten regional stability and security. Bucharest called on the Syrian regime to put an immediate stop to any kind of violence and asked for the rigorous and full application of the plan proposed by the UN-Arab League special envoy, Kofi Annan.
Despite international pressure, the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad continues to cling to power. The intransigent stand of the Syrian president, who initially accepted Annan’s peace plan, was reiterated on Tuesday during Annan’s visit to Damascus. Bashar al Assad said the success of the international peace plan for Syria depended on the halt of terrorist actions.
According to Annan, Syria’s only progress consists in its cooperation with the UN observers who started their mission in Syria last month. But this is not enough, given that 12,000 people have been killed so far since the start of protests in March 2011. More and more international voices say that without a foreign military intervention, as happened in Libya, things will not change in Syria. While Europeans seem to be increasingly in favour of a military intervention with the approval of the UN Security Council, the US is opposed to such a solution, a stand also supported by Russia, who is an older ally of Damascus, as well as by China.
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