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WORLD_ Criticism grows as Barack Obama welcomes Syria deal as 'important step'

Criticism grows as Barack Obama welcomes Syria deal as 'important step'

US President Barack Obama has welcomed the deal to strip Syria of chemical weapons as an "important step" but leading politicans on the Right have branded it an act of weakness


By Damien McElroy
9:22AM BST 15 Sep 2013
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In a White House statement, Mr Obama said that if the regime of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad does not live up to the deal Washington reached with Syria's ally Russia, "the United States remains prepared to act."

He said the accord was made possible "in part" by what he called his credible threat to use force against Syria as punishment for its alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians last month.

"The use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world is an affront to human dignity and a threat to the security of people everywhere," he said. "We have a duty to preserve a world free from the fear of chemical weapons for our children. Today marks an important step towards achieving this goal."

But two influential US lawmakers, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, said Mr Kerry's deal was an act of weakness.


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This agreement does nothing to resolve the real problem in Syria, which is the underlying conflict that has killed 110,000 people, driven millions from their homes, destabilized our friends and allies in the region, emboldened Iran and its terrorist proxies, and become a safe haven for thousands of Al-Qaeda affiliated extremists," the two Republican senators said in a jointly-released statement.

They added that they fear America's friends and foes alike will view the agreement "as an act of provocative weakness on America's part."

"We cannot imagine a worse signal to send to Iran as it continues its push for a nuclear weapon," said Graham and McCain, who was the Republicans' nominee for president in 2008.

"Assad will use the months and months afforded to him to delay and deceive the world using every trick in Saddam Hussein's playbook. It requires a willful suspension of disbelief to see this agreement as anything other than the start of a diplomatic blind alley, and the Obama Administration is being led into it by Bashar Assad and (Russian President) Vladimir Putin."

The US says the attack killed more than 1,400 people while the regime and Russia have put the blame on the rebels.

In the first Syrian reaction to the development, a cabinet minister claimed a great victory thanks to Russian intervention.

"We welcome the agreement," Ali Haidar, the Syrian Reconciliation Minister told Russia's Ria Novosti, giving his country's first reaction.

"On the one hand, it helps Syria come out of the crisis and, on the other, it helps avoid the war against Syria depriving those who wanted to launch it of arguments to do so," Mr Haidar said. "It's a victory for Syria achieved thanks to our Russian friends."

China's foreign minister welcomed the deal between the United States and Russia to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons as a step to easing tensions.

Leading Israeli ministers also embraced the deal. "Like any deal it will be judged on its results. We hope it will succeed," said Yuval Steinitz, the Strategic Affairs Minister. "The deal has advantages and disadvantages," he told Army Radio.

The United States decision to remove Syria's chemical arsenal was a sign of US "rationality", Iran's speaker of parliament said.

Speaker Ali Larijani said in a news conference late on Saturday that any U.S. strike in retaliation for the gas attack would result in a larger conflict in the region and would be against international law, and that U.S. policymakers had realised this.

"We are hopeful that American politicians have some rationality so they avoid extremist behaviour, and the events of the last few days and the decisions that have been taken indicate this rationality," Larijani said

Moscow's influence on Syria alone is reason enough for Washington to be forced to keep open lines of communication with the Russians, according to Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"The United States should seek to include Russia in such an effort, making it clear the Cold War is over, and that the United States will not try to exclude Russia from playing a role in Syria," he said.

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