Syria condemns France envoy sinister decision

Syria has expressed strong opposition to a decision by France to accept an envoy from the Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (SNCROF).

According to AFP, a day after France invited the coalition to send an envoy to Paris, the Syrian National Reconciliation Minister, Ali Haidar said in Tehran on Sunday, “France is acting like a hostile nation”
“It’s as if it wants to go back to the time of the occupation,” the minister noted of the French mandate in Syria after World War I.
The SNCROF formed on November 11 when opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to form a broad coalition to overthrow the president, urging their sympathizers to provide them with more advanced weaponry.
The SNCROF was immediately recognized by the Arab League and six Persian Gulf states, followed by Turkey.
France was the first Western power to recognize the newly-formed opposition and raised the prospects of openly arming the insurgents. Monzer Makhous is to become the coalition’s envoy to the European country.