{"id":314233,"date":"2017-06-24T00:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/france-has-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-usage\/"},"modified":"2017-06-24T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:46:41","slug":"france-has-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/france-has-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"France Has No Evidence of Chemical Weapons\u2019 Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-69250\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Sophie Mangal \/ June 23rd, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The French president Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with <em>El Pais<\/em> (22 June 2017), <a href=\"http:\/\/internacional.elpais.com\/internacional\/2017\/06\/21\/actualidad\/1498060288_982592.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/internacional.elpais.com\/internacional\/2017\/06\/21\/actualidad\/1498060288_982592.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1498344551797000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGn6K-l2Nv91ZmnTGH_RlAOjIBYug\">said <\/a>that the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power is no longer a priority in resolving the Syrian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance no longer sees the displacement of Assad as a priority for anything as well as I do not see who could become his legitimate successor,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69251\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/06\/france-has-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-usage\/macron\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/macron-e1498259062954.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"291\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Emmanuel Macron (center), in an interview with <em>El Pais<\/em>. Jean-Christophe Marmara<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The French president also called on countries to concentrate on fighting terrorism. He stressed it is necessary to work out an entirely new plans of action in Syria. Special attention, he said, must be paid to the allies of Assad since effectively fighting the threat of terrorism  requires the active participation of all the parties \u2014 especially Russia.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Makron criticized Barack Obama for not keeping promises. Namely, that the former U.S. President had declared a tough response in case Assad would cross the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.insidesyriamc.com\/?s=Red+Line\" target=\"_blank\">Red Line<\/a>. \u201cIf the evidence of the use of chemical weapons arose,\u2026 and we knew who used it and where this weapon came from, France will respond immediately by carrying out airstrikes,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n<p>The president of France also hinted that his country is ready to launch air strikes on Syria without U.S. support. <\/p>\n<p>The second question dealt with how the world community could accuse Assad then. Emmanuel Macron stated that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/06\/france-has-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapons-usage\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sophie Mangal \/ June 23rd, 2017 The French president Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with El Pais (22 June 2017), said that the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power is no longer a priority in resolving the Syrian crisis. \u201cFrance no longer sees the displacement of Assad as a priority for anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}