The EU Parliament in Strasbourg condemned the Turkish invasion in Syria. NATO wants to talk about the German proposal of a security zone. By Bernd Riegert, Strasbourg.
The Syrian town of Ras al-Ain after a Turkish air attack (on 13. October)
Syria-debate in the European Parliament: on The proposal of the German defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) only support a few of your party friends from the Christian-democratic group directly. Kramp-Karrenbauer had proposed an international security zone in Northern Syria to stop the invasion of the Turkish troops and the fight against the terrorist group “Islamic state” to resume.
The Christian Democrat David McAllister, the Chairman of the foreign policy Committee of the European Parliament, and Michael Gahler said that the advance of the German Minister, had changed the debate. “Europe must get involved in this crisis area in front of his doorstep. This is also in the interest of the population groups in the Region. These do not want to be alone, shipped to Assad, Putin and Erdogan”, the two politicians.
A Christian Democrat, Gahler: “it is Not enough in Syria committed”
The establishment of a security zone should be made on the basis of a mandate from the United Nations. Significant EU financial assistance to Turkey should only be released when the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the international law, consider demanded, the Christian democratic politician.
Thus, the payments to Turkey for the supply of 3.4 million Syrian refugees in the country are well-meant. The EU must decide in the next few months, whether or not you will have to pay a further three billion euros in the framework of the so-called “refugee deal” with Turkey from the year 2016.
The arms embargo required
Speakers of other fractions were not closer to a possible safe zone in Northern Syria. All called for an end to the military action that is condemned as a violation of the international law focus. Are also criticized the United States, have left the Kurds in Northern Syria, in the opinion of the majority in Parliament is in Strasbourg, in the lurch.
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The Greek MEP Dimitrios Papadimoulis requested that the EU must not only words, but deeds speak. Necessary, targeted economic sanctions and an overall arms embargo to be. The EU foreign Ministers could not agree, ten days ago, on a General Embargo. Only some member States – including Germany – have declared that they would in future approve any arms exports more.
The Finnish social Democrat Eero Heinäluoma said in the debate this Wednesday: “We owe the Kurds a lot.” Finally, the Kurdish fighters have contributed significantly to the containment of the Islamist terrorists. Now, many of the “IS”terrorists to be free again and could be on the way to Europe.
NATO wants to advise the German proposal
In Brussels will on Thursday, the Council of the defence Ministers of NATO countries the situation in Syria. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed before the Meeting that he had spoken with the German Minister Kramp-karrenbauer about your proposal. From NATO circles was to hear that the push that you, among others, in an Interview with the German wave had taken, came as a surprise.
NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg: “troops on the ground needed”
“I welcome any proposal that leads to the path to peace,” said Stoltenberg in a press conference on Wednesday. Of course, it had to be in such an action “troops on the ground,” said Mr Stoltenberg. The same time, the Federal defence Minister Kramp announced-Karrenbauer before German parliamentarians in Berlin, essential allies in NATO had signaled a willingness to talk about a security zone. Which state troops would deploy to such an action is unclear. Kramp-Karrenbauer pointed out that a deployment of the Bundeswehr, the German Bundestag had to decide. First of all, now a mandate of the United Nations should aim for.
The Parliament will condemn the Turkish invasion formally
In Strasbourg, the European Parliament will adopt on Thursday is expected with a large majority, a Resolution against the Turkish actions in Northern Syria. In the view of the Deputy Michael Gahler, the Turkey, with its policy of Europe.”We as EU have not been committed enough in the Syria conflict,” said Gahler of the DW.
Already in March, the European Parliament had called for a formal end of the since 2005, the slow pace of accession negotiations with Turkey. Possible, so Gahler, as a last resort, is also a denunciation of the customs Union. The EU and Turkey to collect – except in the case of agricultural products, most imports and exports, no customs duties.
President Erdogan and Putin in Sochi: a Joint Turkish-Russian patrols in Northern Syria
For the socialist group, Dutch MEP Kati Piri noted the establishment of a Turkish-occupied ten-kilometre-wide Zone on the Syrian border in breach of international law. “Turkey wants to expel the local population and up to two million refugees from Turkey to resettle forced.” The establishment of such a Zone was agreed on Tuesday at a Meeting of the Turkish President Erdogan with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in the seaside resort of Sochi.
Russia and Turkey working in the Syria war, in fact, against each other, want to be scare in this Zone now jointly patrol and Kurdish militias. The Zone is to establish Erdogan and Putin, now that could be functionalized at the end of “inter-nation”, said the CDU-politician Gahler. He did not believe that the people there want to live under Russian or Turkish control.