Jet pejuang Rafale Tentera
Laut Perancis (A
French Navy Rafale jet fighter. AFP Photo (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
N.nizah – Perancis,
selepas Amerika Syarikat dan United Kingdom, memakai brek pada retorik perang
Syria. Berikutan Washington dan membawa London, Presiden Perancis Francois
Hollande berkata beliau akan menunggu undi parlimen sebelum melakukan Perancis
untuk serangan tentera di Syria.
Pengumuman
itu datang sebagai negara-negara NATO menimbang semula sama ada untuk mengambil
tindakan ketenteraan terhadap kerajaan Syria ke atas serangan senjata kimia
yang membunuh beratus-ratus orang di Damsyik, di tengah-tengah berkembang
pembangkang awam untuk campur tangan tentera Amerika Syarikat yang dipimpin.
Paris
menyokong keluar tindakan ketenteraan segera terhadap Syria selepas Ahli
Parlimen di UK House of Commons mengalahkan cadangan Perdana Menteri, David
Cameron yang tentera British mengambil bahagian dalam tindakan ketenteraan ke
atas penggunaan yang dikatakan senjata kimia oleh kerajaan Assad. Undi perang -
yang pertama hilang oleh seorang Perdana Menteri British sejak 1782 - diikuti
oleh Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama berkata Sabtu bahawa dia akan menunggu
sehingga dia menerima kebenaran daripada Kongres Amerika Syarikat sebelum
mengambil tindakan ketenteraan di Syria.
Yang
menghairankan, memandangkan teragak-agak Perancis lalu untuk menyertai dalam
pengembaraan ketenteraan, Hollande telah penyokong yang paling lantang operasi
ketenteraan Amerika Syarikat, yang Obama berkata tidak termasuk “kasut di atas
tanah.”
Presiden
Perancis, tidak seperti Perdana Menteri British, tidak memerlukan kebenaran
daripada Parlimen di negara ini, Dewan Negara, memerintahkan tindakan
ketenteraan.
Kerajaan
Sosialis Hollande adalah cepat untuk melompat pada kereta muzik anti-Assad,
menuduh pemimpin Syria menjalankan serangan tersebut, dengan Menteri Luar
beliau berkata maklumat yang menunjukkan tentera kerajaan Syria berada di
belakang apa yang dikenali sebagai "pembunuhan beramai-ramai kimia.”
“Semua
maklumat yang ada pada kita menumpu untuk menunjukkan bahawa terdapat satu
pembunuhan kimia beramai-ramai berhampiran Damsyik dan bahawa rejim Bashar
bertanggungjawab,” kata Menteri Luar Negeri Perancis Laurent Fabius pada 24
Ogos.
France,
following US and UK, applies brakes on Syrian war rhetoric. Following
Washington and London’s lead, French President Francois Hollande said he would
wait for a parliamentary vote before committing France to a military attack on
Syria.
The
announcement comes as NATO countries reconsider whether to take military action
against the Syrian government over a chemical weapons attack that killed
hundreds of people in Damascus, amid growing public opposition to a US-led
military intervention.
Paris
backed off immediate military action against Syria after MPs in the UK House of
Commons defeated Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal that British forces
take part in military action over the alleged use of chemical weapons by
Assad’s government. The war vote – the first lost by a British prime minister
since 1782 – was followed by US President Barack Obama saying Saturday that he
would wait until he receives authorization from the US Congress before taking
military action on Syria.
Surprisingly,
given France’s past hesitation to join in military adventures, Hollande has
been the most vocal supporter of a US military operation, which Obama said
would not include “boots on the ground.”
The
French president, unlike the British prime minister, does not require
permission from the country’s parliament, the National Assembly, to order
military action.
Hollande’s
Socialist government was quick to jump on the anti-Assad bandwagon, accusing
the Syrian leader of carrying out the attack, with his foreign minister saying
that information pointed to Syrian government forces being behind what it
called a "chemical massacre."
"All
the information at our disposal converges to indicate that there was a chemical
massacre near Damascus and that the Bashar regime is responsible," French
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on August 24.
Orang-orang Syria berjalan lalui bangunan musnah di bandar utara Aleppo (Syrians walk past
destroyed buildings in the northern city of Aleppo AFP Photo (think IN pictures
@1WORLDCommunity)
Rusia
telah mengkritik negara-negara Barat melompat untuk ke kesimpulan atas serangan
itu, bagaimanapun, dengan Presiden Vladimir Putin berkata pada hari Sabtu
bahawa ia adalah “tidak masuk akal sama sekali” untuk mempercayai bahawa
kerajaan Syria akan menggunakan senjata kimia ke atas mereka sendiri dan pada
masa yang sama sebagaimana pemeriksa senjata PBB di negara itu.
Sebelum
menyampaikan ucapan atas Syria di luar White House, Obama menjelaskan
keputusannya untuk Hollande dalam panggilan telefon, seorang pegawai di pejabat
presiden Perancis kepada pemberita.
Menteri
Dalam Negeri Perancis Manuel Valls berkata pada hari Ahad Perancis tidak akan
bertindak bersendirian di Syria tetapi akan menunggu keputusan yang dibuat oleh
Kongres Amerika Syarikat.
“Perancis
tidak boleh melakukannya secara sendirian,” Valls kepada Eropah 1 radio. “Kita
perlu gabungan. “
Perdana
Menteri Perancis, Jean-Marc Ayrault, dijadualkan untuk bertemu dengan
ketua-ketua kedua-dua majlis Parlimen dan pembangkang pada hari Isnin untuk
membincangkan keadaan Syria dalam jangka masa untuk berdebat Parlimen pada
Rabu.
Rusia
telah memberi amaran bahawa rancangan jelas Washington untuk campur tangan
ketenteraan di Syria hanya akan bertindak untuk meningkatkan keganasan yang
kini mencengkam negara.
“Mana-mana
penggunaan tenaga unilateral tanpa kebenaran daripada Majlis Keselamatan PBB,
tidak kira bagaimana ‘terhad’ itu, akan menjadi satu pelanggaran jelas
undang-undang antarabangsa, akan menjejaskan prospek resolusi politik dan
diplomatik konflik di Syria dan akan membawa untuk pusingan baru konfrontasi
dan mangsa baru, “kata jurucakap Kementerian Luar Russian Aleksandr Lukashevich.
Terdapat kekurangan bukti bahawa kerajaan Syria menggunakan senjata kimia,
tambah beliau.
Menteri
Luar Mesir, Nabil Fahmy, telah berkata bahawa kerajaannya adalah kerajaan
terhadap campur tangan ketenteraan di Syria.
“Mesir
menolak campur tangan ketenteraan di Syria, kerana kami percaya bahawa
penyelesaian politik adalah satu-satunya jalan keluar bagi krisis di sana.
Mesir menyokong 2 ceramah Geneva, “Fahmy
kepada pemberita di Kaherah pada hari Selasa, memetik Bab 7 Piagam PBB, yang
mengadakan peruntukan bagi penggunaan tindakan ketenteraan jika ia membuktikan
bahawa negara telah menjadi bahaya kepada keamanan dan keselamatan
antarabangsa.
Setiausaha
Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon berkata beliau telah berbincang dengan Obama” bagaimana
kita boleh mempercepatkan proses penyiasatan” ke dalam serangan tersebut, tetapi menambah: “Saya
juga telah menyatakan hasrat ikhlas saya bahawa pasukan penyiasatan ini harus
dibenarkan untuk terus mereka bekerja sebagai mandat oleh negara-negara anggota.”
Sementara
itu, Ketua Setiausaha NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, berkata pada Jumaat bahawa
perikatan tentera tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk mengambil bahagian dalam
serangan tentera di Syria, satu langkah yang memerlukan kelulusan daripada
semua anggota 28 negara.
Russia
has criticized Western nations for jumping to conclusions over the attack,
however, with President Vladimir Putin saying on Saturday that it was “utter
nonsense” to believe that the Syrian government would use chemical weapons on
its own people at the same time as UN weapons inspectors were in the country.
Before
delivering his speech on Syria outside the White House, Obama explained his
decision to Hollande in a telephone call, an official in the French president's
office told reporters.
French
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday France would not act alone in
Syria but would await a decision by the US Congress.
"France
can not go it alone," Valls told Europe 1 radio. "We need a
coalition."
French
prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, is scheduled to meet with the heads of the
two houses of parliament and the opposition on Monday to discuss the Syrian
situation in the run-up to a parliamentary debate on Wednesday.
Russia
has warned that Washington’s apparent plans for military intervention in Syria
would only serve to increase the violence now gripping the country.
"Any
unilateral use of force without the authorization of the UN Security Council, no
matter how 'limited' it is, will be a clear violation of international law,
will undermine prospects for a political and diplomatic resolution of the
conflict in Syria and will lead to a new round of confrontation and new
casualties," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich
said. There was a lack of proof that the Syrian government used chemical
weapons, he added.
Egypt’s
Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy, has said that his government is against military
intervention in Syria.
"Egypt
rejects military intervention in Syria, as we believe a political solution is
the only way out for the crisis there. Egypt supports the Geneva-2 talks,"
Fahmy told reporters in Cairo on Tuesday, citing Chapter 7 of the UN charter,
which provides for the use of military action if it is proven that a country
has become a danger to international peace and security.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that he had discussed with Obama “how we can
expedite the process of investigation” into the attack, but added: “I have also
expressed my sincere wish that this investigation team should be allowed to
continue their work as mandated by the member states."
Meanwhile,
NATO's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Friday that the military
alliance has no plans to participate in a military attack on Syria, a move that
would require the approval of all 28 member countries.
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