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Bosonic

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Fri Aug 30, 2013, 06:49 AM Aug 2013

No German plans to join Syria military action

Source: AP

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says it currently has no plans to join military action against Syria.

Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin on Friday that "we haven't considered any German military participation and still aren't doing so."

His comments follow an interview Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle gave to the daily Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung in which he said Germany hadn't been asked to contribute to military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad following the alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds of civilians last week.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/no-german-plans-join-syria-military-action

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No German plans to join Syria military action (Original Post) Bosonic Aug 2013 OP
Well the world is indeed being united in opposition to war against Syria. David__77 Aug 2013 #1

David__77

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1. Well the world is indeed being united in opposition to war against Syria.
Fri Aug 30, 2013, 07:06 AM
Aug 2013

More countries are joining the coalition of the majority. Yes, I say majority. Let us see how a General Assembly vote would play out on this...

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