France is pushing for humanitarian corridors in Syria, with
a bid that is very unlikely to win U.N. Security Council backing but is
part of a diplomatic game aiming at pressuring Russia.
French President Francois Hollande met Wednesday in Paris with a delegation of the opposition Syrian National Coalition and said France is working on "corridors that will possibly be opened to give necessary aid to the population".
Such corridors, presumably guarded by international forces, would need the approval of a resolution of the UN Security Council.
Russia and China have already vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
But Western diplomats are trying to put pressure on Russia ahead of an international conference in Geneva to try to agree on a transitional government.
[AP]
French President Francois Hollande met Wednesday in Paris with a delegation of the opposition Syrian National Coalition and said France is working on "corridors that will possibly be opened to give necessary aid to the population".
Such corridors, presumably guarded by international forces, would need the approval of a resolution of the UN Security Council.
Russia and China have already vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
But Western diplomats are trying to put pressure on Russia ahead of an international conference in Geneva to try to agree on a transitional government.
[AP]
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