Vatican criticizes global powers for preparing military action against Syria

[Catherina]

Vatican’s official daily and mouthpiece yesterday criticised global powers for preparing possible military action against Syria despite an ongoing United Nations (UN) investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus.

“The tones are becoming ever more drastic and the action being taken by the United Nations appears subjected to a sort of crossfire,” the newspaper said.

“Various international actors appear no longer to consider the investigation a determining factor,” it said, adding that “what commitment there was” to a negotiated settlement “appears to be dying out”.

The Vatican’s permanent observer at the United Nations in Geneva, Monsignor Silvano Tomasi, last week cast doubt on the Syrian regime’s responsibility for the apparent chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus.

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"The tones are becoming ever more drastic and the action being taken by the United Nations appears subjected to a sort of crossfire. Various international actors appear no longer to consider the investigation a determining factor... and what commitment there was to a negotiated settlement appears to be dying out," the Tuesday publication points out. Last week, the Vatican's permanent observer at the UN in Geneva, Monsignor Silvano Tomasi, voiced doubt the Syrian regime was responsible for the reported use of chemical weapons in Damascus' suburbs. The Vatican firmly opposes any form of armed intervention, grounding its opinion on the mayhem triggered by the war staged by the USA to topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003.

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