French PM slams MPs for meeting with Syrian ‘butcher’ Assad
27 Feb 2015 1:08 AM GMT
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Thursday said that he “condemned with the greatest strength” a decision by three French lawmakers to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he described as “a butcher”. “I want to condemn this initiative with the greatest strength,” Valls told TV station BFMTV.
“For parliamentarians to go without warning to meet a butcher.... I think it was a moral failing.” A cross-party group of four French lawmakers made an unofficial trip to the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday and held talks with senior ministers. Three of the MPs -- not including one from the ruling Socialist party -- met with the Syrian leader.
“We met Bashar al-Assad for a good hour. It went very well,” Jacques Myard, an MP from the opposition UMP party, told AFP.
“For parliamentarians to go without warning to meet a butcher.... I think it was a moral failing.” A cross-party group of four French lawmakers made an unofficial trip to the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday and held talks with senior ministers. Three of the MPs -- not including one from the ruling Socialist party -- met with the Syrian leader.
“We met Bashar al-Assad for a good hour. It went very well,” Jacques Myard, an MP from the opposition UMP party, told AFP.
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