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French president convenes emergency meeting

BEIRUT (AP) Apr. 7, 2017 — French President Francois Hollande is convening an emergency defense meeting to discuss next steps in Syria after U.S. airstrikes targeting President Bashar Assad’s government.
Hollande said he will hold the meeting with top security officials in Paris on Friday, as France tries to relaunch international peace negotiations for Syria. He called the U.S. airstrikes a response to a chemical weapons attack that Western powers blame on Assad’s forces.
French warplanes are active in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State extremists and France has long called for Assad’s departure, but French diplomats have pushed this week for resumed peace talks instead of international intervention.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the U.S. bombing was a warning to Assad’s allies Russia and Iran.


 

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