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Monday, September 9, 2013
Germany hints at cautious support for Russian proposal
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel called the Russian proposal for Syria to give up its chemical weapons “interesting,” assuming it was not just a way to buy time for the Assad regime.
Merkel was speaking on a German public television broadcast Monday ahead of an upcoming national election.
“Today there was an interesting proposal from Russia, which called on Syria for the first time to place its chemical weapons under international control,” Merkel said, according to a translation by European news site The Local. “If this is followed by action and not about buying time and this materializes, then Germany will push for that road to be followed.”
“Everything must be tried to achieve this without military intervention,” she added.
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