British Foreign Secretary William Hague said
Monday an international response to the suspected chemical weapons attack in
Syria was possible without unanimous UN Security Council backing.
"Is
it possible to respond to chemical weapons without complete unity on the UN
Security Council? I would argue yes," he told the BBC.
Pressure for international action in Syria is
mounting in the wake of an alleged gas attack near Damascus last week which
activists said killed hundreds of people, according to AFP.
Asked about the possibility of military
strikes this week, Hague said to BBC: "I'm not going to rule anything in
or out, I'm not going to speculate about that in public."
"It
is possible to take actions based on great humanitarian need and humanitarian
distress, it is possible to do that under many scenarios," he said.
"We,
the US and other countries including France are very clear that we can't allow
the idea in the 21st century that chemical weapons can be used with impunity,
but I can't go into the military options at the moment."
In his turn, French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabuis called for the international community to react with force on Thursday
if it is confirmed the Syrian government used chemical weapons in a deadly
assault on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
Zaman Alwasl
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