Westerners worry about the risks of fragmentation of Syria

Suspicious about the representativeness of the new Syrian transitional power, Westerners are also concerned about the risks of partition of Syria, a week after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, overthrown by the Islamist rebels of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTC) . Heads of State and Government of the G7, meeting by videoconference on Friday, December 13, were concerned about such a development, under the dual pressure of fighting between local factions and the intervention of two of Syria's neighbors: Turkey. , which is pushing its pawns in the north of the country, with the help of its Syrian auxiliaries, and Israel, which has occupied a new part of the Golan Heights, in the South.

“We urge all parties to preserve the territorial integrity and national unity of Syria, and respect its independence and sovereignty”had already warned the G7 countries the day before. As for Antony Blinken, the American Secretary of State, visiting Jordan on Thursday and Turkey and Iraq on Friday, he judged “really important”in reference to the military initiatives taken by Israel and Turkey, let everyone do “to avoid triggering new conflicts”.

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