WORLD_ Hague sticks to peace plan but doesn't rule out intervention

Hague sticks to peace plan but doesn't rule out intervention

Britain cannot rule out military intervention in Syria if the current peace plan fails, foreign secretary William Hague said on Friday.

 
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary Photo: REX FEATURES

By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut
11:20AM BST 01 Jun 2012

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme the Foreign Secretary said Britain was not yet prepared to arm Syria’s rebel opposition, but that if the UN-led peace plan were to collapse “other options” would have to be looked at.

For the moment Britain is giving full backing to UN envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan. While the Syrian regime has ignored the peace plan it remained “much the best option,” said Mr Hague.

He urged Russia, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad, to push the Syrian regime into complying with the plan. “What I have put to the Russians is the case that for their own interests it would be better to use their leverage to make sure that even now the Assad regime implements that plan”.

In the face of a crumbling ceasefire, Mr Hague has travelled to Turkey to hold talks with Syrian opposition groups. He warned that were the Annan plan Syria would be in a “state of collapse” and ravaged by sectarian civil war.

Any foreign intervention would be on a much larger scale than the operations in Libya, the Foreign Secretary warned. Echoing the position of US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, he said any military action in Syria would need backing from the United Nations.


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Arming Syria’s opposition would occur only with broad international support, and would depend on the UN and on what is “practical and effective”.

Last week’s massacre in the Syrian town of Houla where more than 100 people were murdered in cold blood caused an international outcry against the Syrian government. The UN Human Rights Council will hold an emergency meeting in Geneva today at the UK’s request to discuss the situation new diplomatic action.

Downing Street has said it is also looking at other options, including further sanctions against the Syria, but it warned President Assad that Britain would not “abandon” the Syrian people.




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