Syria: De-escalation Zones Debate

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Pat McFadden

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Syria: De-escalation Zones

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Monday 26th February 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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We will certainly do everything we can both to gather the evidence that is necessary and to hold the perpetrators to account.

Pat McFadden Portrait Mr Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East) (Lab)
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It is good that the UN Security Council has passed a resolution, but why should President Assad fear the Security Council? What will it do to enforce the resolution?

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The answer has already been given several times in the House this afternoon: the greatest fear and constraint upon Bashar al-Assad and other members of the Assad regime are the eventual consequences that they will face in terms of prosecution for war crimes.

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