Syria: anti-Government Forces Debate

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Martin Horwood

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Syria: anti-Government Forces

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Points of Order
Monday 4th March 2013

(11 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I wish only that President Assad showed any interest in international law, any law, or any kind of human decency—a decency that the EU and the countries that are trying to help the people of Syria are currently showing.

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I welcome the Minister’s cautious yet well-informed replies. In the case of Syria, should we abide by the rule of three used by the Foreign Secretary with regard to Libya, which is that no state should intervene militarily except where there is a strong humanitarian and legal case, regional support and explicit UN sanction—three things notably absent 10 years ago in Iraq?

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