The team of French diplomats who visited Damascus on Tuesday asked the new transitional authorities to “continue the fight against Daesh [EI, organisation Etat islamique] and other terrorist groups »reported the French foreign ministry.
France will be “attentive to ensuring that collective security interests are guaranteed”Who “go through the continuation of the fight against Daesh and other terrorist groups, and the prevention of the dissemination of the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons”added the ministry. French diplomats also underlined, in particular, that “France would determine its commitment in Syria based on these criteria”.
France sent a team of four diplomats on Tuesday who spoke with a representative designated by the transitional authorities. The diplomats repeated to him that France wanted for the Syrians, “in accordance with the ideals of the 2011 revolution that she supported, a peaceful political transition, representative of all components of Syrian society, which respects the rights of all Syrians, including women”which also guarantees the protection of civilians including ethnic and confessional minorities, and guarantees the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria.
The diplomats were also responsible for going to the French embassy, which had been closed since 2012, “in order to work towards the reopening, depending on political and security conditions, of the diplomatic system” French.
The special envoy for Syria Jean-François Guillaume, who led this mission, also spoke with representatives of Syrian civil society organizations engaged in helping the population. “He informed them of France’s desire to immediately deploy means to medically and psychologically support detainees released from the regime’s prisons, and to promote the fight against impunity for crimes committed”also indicated the Quai d’Orsay.
