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The French President Francois Hollande says theagreement between Russia and the United States todestroy Syria's chemical weapons could be put to avote of the United Nations Security Council by theend of the week. Speaking on French Television, he described the deal reached on Saturday asan important step, but he said the threat of military force had to remain in order to keep upthe pressure on the Syrian government to comply. Christian Fraser reports from Paris.
"France takes a hawkish position on Syria, the majority here think it's too hawkish. But theFrench government has made a commitment to the Syrian coalition and they’re worrieddisagreement will embolden the position of President Assad. 'Let me be clear', said Mr.Hollande, 'there is no place for President Assad in a future Syria, not him and not the Jihadist'.'There will be', he added, ‘the threat of sanctions that attached to the resolution they putforward should the Syrians fail to comply.’ Note the world sanctions, they’re unspecified to suitthe Russians, but he did talk in this interview of military strikes which is still seemingly on thetable."
A minister in the Syrian government has described the agreement as a victory. The SyrianMinister for Reconciliation Ali Haidar said it helped the Syrians out of crisis and averted war. Buta spokesman for the rebel council in Qusair, an area affected by the chemical attack lastmonth, told the BBC that it was the worst kind of triumph.
“It's a victory, they managed to kill 1,500 people with chemical weapons in the 21st century andthey got away with it, just like they killed over 150,000 people. And until now, no one puts anend to this savage, brutal, fascist regime, so they are absolutely correct, they have won.”Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said Damascus was already drawing up documentto declare details of its chemical weapons, something it has one week to do.
President Obama says he has exchanged letters with the new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.In an interview with the American television network ABC, Mr. Obama said the Iranianauthorities understood that Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons was a far larger issue for theUnited States than the use of the chemical weapons in Syria.
“My suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn't draw a lesson that we haven'tstruck to think we won't strike Iran. On the other hand, what they should draw from thislesson, is that there is the potential of resolving these issues diplomatically.”
Officials in Italy say the operation to lift the cruise ship which ran aground off the Tuscan coastlast year and pitched over onto its side will go ahead on Monday as planned. Thirty-two peopledied when the Costa Concordia's struck a rocky outcrop of the Tuscan island of Giglio. If thevessel is successfully raised, it will be the biggest ever salvage of a passenger ship.
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Almost 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of car bomb attacks inIraq. The city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, was hit by four car bombs, two of which went off neara busy market. In Baghdad, the convoy of a provincial official was hit by a car bomb killing twopeople including his bodyguard.
The first openly gay Mayor in Mexico's history has been sworn in at a ceremony in the northerncity of Fresnillo. Benjamin Medrano says he hoped to make a difference for the people ofFresnillo who have been caught in the middle of a turf war between drug cartels. From MexicoCity Will Grant reports.
“A former singer who lived for several years in the United States, Mr. Medrano told the BBCSpanish language service, BBC Mundo, his political opponents had used his sexuality as a keypart of their campaign against him. Mayor Medrano says he has a particular affinity withminority groups in Zacatecas that in general has taken a tough stance on issues such as gaymarriage. I wouldn't marry, he told BBC Mundo, and suggested that it was right for Mexico Citywhere same sex marriage is legal didn't necessarily apply to northern Mexico.”
One person has been killed and several others injured in clashes between police and protestersin the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Thousands of people have taken to the streets toprotest against the declared results of July's national election which gave a narrow victory tothe Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party. The opposition leader SamRainsy says the vote in July was rigged and threatened that his party will boycott the newparliamentary session.
One of the most senior Anglican clerics in Nigeria who was kidnapped by armed men more thana week ago has been freed. Police said Archbishop Ignatius Kattey was released on Saturdayevening and was in a stable condition. The archbishop was abducted near his home in PortHarcourt in the Niger Delta along with his wife, but she was freed earlier.
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