Syria: France calls for UN to enforce Annan plan

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he will call on the UN Security Council to make mediator Kofi Annan's Syria peace plan mandatory.

France would propose that Mr Annan's six-point plan be enforced under the UN's Chapter Seven provision, he said.

Mr Fabius told a news conference in Paris that the conflict in Syria had become a "civil war".

His remarks echoed the words of the head of UN peacekeeping operations, Herve Ladsous, on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18428782

[pinto]

1. Chapter Seven -

"A Chapter Seven resolution in the Security Council would allow for action to be backed up by force, which fellow council members Russia and China would be unlikely to accept. But Mr Fabius said he hoped that Russia would agree to the proposal."

[dipsydoodle]

2. In Mr Fabius's dreams.

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[maddezmom]

3. as long as both sides of the conflict are receiving arms from outsiders

Annan's plan is going no where.

[David__77]

4. Chapter 7 is a red line, and this "socialist" knows it.

Also, to be clear, his remarks on military intervention were not an "echo" of Ladsous' comments - Ladsous did not address intervention at all.

[may3rd]

6. CH 7, that's how the UN got action taken on the Korean peninsula in 1950

So, invoke it again and it will turn Syria into another 60 year undeclared cease fire like the thorn in China's side ?

[may3rd]

5. yeah, good luck with that , France

How bout taking the lead in putting boots on the ground,
oui ?

[hrmjustin]

7. Nobody is going to do anything, because they don't what to get into a ground war.n/t

[hardtravelin]

8. Apres Vous, Frenchie.

I've had enough war for a while.