The Syrian coalition recognized by the European Union, for dessert
(B2) There is no need for words or big statements sometimes. In diplomatic terms, a good lunch is worth all the recognition in the world. This is the bias of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union to silence their differences of approach.
The "27" will indeed have at their table, Monday, Ahmed Moaz Al-Khatib, the president of the Coalition of Syrian opposition and revolutionary forces. Certainly it will only be a dessert and a coffee taken together. Since before the ministers will have had another equally thorny subject to discuss: the evolution of the situation in the Middle East (with the question also of relations between the EU and Russia). But it's also a way to distance yourself from all the literary precautions that were taken during the last Council of Ministers.
On November 19, the debate sharpened between those in favor of giving the new Syrian opposition coalition the status of "single legitimate representative" and those in favor of conferring a more vague status, we finally chose not to to choose, with an equivocal formula of "legitimate representatives of the aspirations of the Syrian people". On Monday, the European Union will thus have deliberately validated the choice of the coalition as "the legitimate representative" of the Syrian people.
France (November 13) followed by Italy (November 19) and the United Kingdom (November 20) had chosen to recognize the opposition as "the" legitimate representative of the Syrian people. The United States, hesitating for a while, seemed ready to adopt this point of view since on Wednesday (December 5) in Brussels, Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, acknowledged that the opposition organization would In the right direction ". And that she had "the intention and willingness to work with (her) » and even to find « look for new ways to help them ».
(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)
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