The French foreign minister said Monday there will be a “proportionate response” to the alleged chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb that he blamed on Syria’s government.<\/p>\n
“It will be negotiated in coming days,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio on Monday.<\/p>\n
Fabius acknowledged that the lack of a U.N. blessing was problematic.<\/p>\n
“All the options are open. The only option that I can’t imagine would be to do nothing,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said the existence of a “chemical massacre” had been established and that President Bashar Assad was responsible.<\/p>\n
“A reaction is needed, that’s where we are now… There is a duty to react,” he added.<\/p>\n
Syria’s government agreed to allow U.N. experts already in the country to begin an investigation Monday into the suspected chemical attack on rebel-held areas in the capital’s eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n
Anti-government activists and Doctors Without Borders say that more than 300 people were killed in an artillery barrage by regime forces Wednesday that included the use of toxic gas.<\/p>\n
Source: Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The French foreign minister said Monday there will be a “proportionate response” to the alleged chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb that he blamed on Syria’s government.<\/p>\n
“It will be negotiated in coming days,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio on Monday.<\/p>\n
Fabius acknowledged that the lack of a U.N. blessing was problematic.<\/p>\n
“All the options are open. The only option that I can’t imagine would be to do nothing,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said the existence of a “chemical massacre” had been established and that President Bashar Assad was responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}