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The German government believes unilateral steps could be counter productive…We think negotiations are the right way.
Peace will only come from negotiations. It will be a negotiated peace. It cannot be imposed from the outside, not by any power and certainly not by one-sided UN resolutions.
The Syrian regime is undoubtedly being assisted by the Iranian government in many ways, both the provision of equipment for them, and advice on techniques on how to crush protest.
Syria‘s apparent attempt at constructing a covert, undeclared plutonium production reactor, a reactor with no credible peaceful purpose, represents one of the most serious safeguards violations possible…The reactor there was built for the express purpose of producing plutonium for possible use in nuclear weapons.
The violence being meted out to peaceful protestors and demonstrators is completely unacceptable. Of course, we must not stand silent in the face of those outrages, and we will not. The EU has already frozen the assets of, and banned travel by, members of the regime, and we have now added President Assad to that list. However, I believe that we need to go further, and today in New York, Britain and France will table a resolution at the Security Council condemning the repression and demanding accountability and humanitarian access. If anyone votes against that resolution or tries to veto it, that should be on their conscience.
We strongly support a return to negotiations, but we do not think that it would be productive for there to be a conference about returning to negotiations. There has to be a return to negotiations, which will take a lot of persuasion, a lot of preliminary work, in order to set up a productive meeting between the parties.