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| Romania and the Situation in Syria |
| (2012-10-05) |
| Last updated: 2012-10-08 13:12 EET |
A missile launched from the Syrian territory – the scene of an armed conflict that has been going on for the past 18 months – landed in Turkey and killed five civilians. The incident, which triggered immediate retaliation from the Turkish military, which shelled several targets in the neighboring country, has been the most severe since June, when a Turkish fighter was brought down by a Syrian rocket. Although Damascus has apologized to Ankara, pledging that such an event will not happen again, the Turkish Parliament has given the go ahead to military strikes against Syria, if the government considered it necessary.
That doesn’t mean however, that Turkey wants to open a conflict with Syria, as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan has explained.
The international community has lashed out at the latest Syrian army’s shelling of a village in Turkey. The UN and the EU have called on all the parties involved to show restraint, while NATO, which Turkey is a member of, has voiced its staunch support and solidarity with the authorities in Ankara. In turn, Bucharest has firmly condemned Syria’s aggression, with its foreign minister Titus Corlatean saying that Romania will act in close coordination with NATO concerning the situation at the Turkish-Syrian border. As a NATO member, Romania has called for such actions to be discouraged.
Titus Corlatean: “Our attitude is very clear: we support Turkey and we believe that any act of violence, of a military nature, across the border – allegedly promoted by Syrian governmental forces – such things are unacceptable. Together with the other NATO member countries we have called for such actions to be discouraged.”
Last week Foreign Minister Corlatean said that Romania was sharing the international community’s concern for the situation in Syria and the humanitarian crisis raging in that country, also voicing concern for the Romanian citizens and mixed families living on Syrian soil. He also made public Romania’s intention to provide financial assistance, together with other EU countries, for the efforts of Syria’s neighbors to handle the situation of the Syrian refugees on their territories.
On the other hand, minister Corlatean said that Romania remains committed to its pledges inside NATO and that it assumes the risks entailed by its NATO membership. His statement came in response to radical Islamic leader Omar Bakri, who said that Romania, Bulgaria and other countries in Eastern Europe are Islamic territories and legitimate targets for terrorists. Corlatean has deemed Bakri’s statement as dramatically straying away from reality.
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