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After some media have reported the use of 21 August by Syrian government forces chemical weapons in the vicinity of Damascus against rebels, many Western countries have started talking in earnest about the possibility of using air strikes on Syria.
The Australian Government also supported the position of the West about the possibility of a forceful intervention in Syria, with considers, that this can be done even without the approval of the power of the action by the UN Security Council, as the Reuters news agency was transferred Wednesday.
However, according to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Syria's use of chemical weapons is a colossal crime and a violation of all international rights. So, most likely, the UN Security Council would approve the application of sanctions against Syria, if not for the position of Russia and China.
However,, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said, what Russia and China need to provide, permanent members of the UN Security Council, irrefutable evidence of the use of chemical weapons by Syria. In this case,, according to the Australian Foreign Minister, the position of these countries in relation to the Assad regime will have to change.
The position of Western countries has sharply changed towards Syria in a sharply aggressive direction after the statements of the Syrian National Opposition Coalition that, that as a result of a chemical attack near Damascus, about 1,3 Thousands of people.
A series of bombing strikes are set to rain down on the Assad regime on Thursday, Ie. today and continue for three days. This was announced at a meeting of representatives of the Syrian opposition and a group of diplomats from Western and Arab countries, held in Turkey 29 Augusta.
However, in Russia's opinion, statements about the use of chemical weapons by Syria are nothing more than an unsubstantiated pretext for military intervention in this country, bypassing the UN Security Council and contradict the declaration of the G8 countries on the need for an independent investigation into the use of such weapons.