France: Actions of Syria’s Assad ‘irreparable’: Sarkozy

In his annual address to France’s top diplomats, Sarkozy said France will do whatever is “legally” within its power in order to ensure a victory of Syria’s pro-democracy movement over Assad’s regime. “What the Syrian president has done is irreparable. France, with its partners, will do all that is legally possible in order that the Libyan people’s hopes for freedom and democracy are triumphant.”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared on Wednesday that the actions of Syrian strongman Bashar Al-Assad had caused “irreparable” damage to his rule and vowed to support his overthrow. Sarkozy was making the speech on the eve of a Paris conference to mark the victory, with French and NATO military and diplomatic support, of Libya’s pro-democracy revolution against Moamer Kadhafi’s regime.

"The regime in Damascus wrongly believes it is safe from its own people,” Sarkozy said, referring to Assad’s ongoing battle to suppress pro-democracy street protests that have erupted in Syrian cities. He made no threat to repeat France’s Libyan military intervention in Syria, but made it clear Paris stands on the side of Arab peoples demanding freedom.

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