Syria bashes France over war stance

The Syrian Foreign Ministry has criticized France’s stance on the crisis in the Arab country, saying the veto-wielding power’s following of the US policy in this regard is “shameful.”

Faisal Muqdad said in an exclusive interview with AFP on Wednesday: “It’s shameful that the French president… says ‘if Congress approves, I go to war, otherwise I won’t go’, as if the French government had no say in the matter.”
Paris has followed Washington in building a case that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus last month.
However, it has announced that it will not carry out unilateral missile strikes against Syria pending a decision by US Congress on the issue.
On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka, and Jobar.
A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and the UK, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus categorically rejected having had any role in the chemical attack, describing the incident as a false-flag operation by militants.