FRANCE AND TURKEY WARN..."WE MAY NEED TO INTERVENE MILITARILY IN SYRIA NOW."
France on Thursday repeated its call for the UN Security Council to allow military action in Syria if a UN–backed peace plan brokered by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan fails to stop the violence under Assad’s regime.French foreign minister Alain Juppe signaled that Paris is increasingly lining up behind a US position laid out by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Paris talks last week by key members of the so–called “Friends of Syria” group.
He said France has been discussing with other world powers the prospect of invokingChapter 7 of the UN charter, which allows for action that could be militarily enforceable.
Clinton also mentioned a Chapter 7 resolution on Thursday.