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Tunisia‘We are together in this: Europeans and Arabs, East and West’
November 16, 2015
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The international community must be united in dealing with the conflict in Syria, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Saturday on arrival in Vienna for the second round of talks on a political solution for the crisis in Syria, expressing her grief and solidarity at the terrorist attacks in Paris.
The attacks in Paris, she said, follow the bombings in Lebanon earlier last week, the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt and the attacks in Turkey a few weeks ago: “We are together in this: Europeans and Arabs, East and West.” She highlighted “the responsibility to unite ourselves, against those who want to divide us; to build, against those who want to destroy.”
In this context, she concluded, there is no alternative for the international community to be united in “dealing with the conflict in our region, starting from this terrible war in Syria”.
The meeting in Vienna comes two weeks after a first round of talks on Syria. At the previous gathering on 30 October, for the first time all key regional and international actors – including Iran and Saudi Arabia – sat at the same table to discuss a political transition in the war-torn country. (EU Neighbourhood Info)
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European Commission – Factsheet – The European Union and Syria
European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection – Syrian crisis factsheet
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