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きわめて危険な戦争勃発直前（キューバ危機以来）：米露 シリアでの化学兵器使用にたいし、イギリス、フランス、そしてアメリカが シリアにたいしミサイル攻撃をいまにも実行に移すというような情勢になってしまっている。 化学兵器の使用についての確たる証拠に至っている保証はないうえに、それを理由に ロシア側の意向も無視して、一方的に攻撃に出る衝動に駆られてしまっている。 ロシアは、もしシリアが攻撃されれば、「重大な結果をもたらすことになる」、つまり 直ちに報復行動に出る、ことを国連でも発表している。 危険なのは、双方がこれだけ強烈に対決するなか、それを止める勢力が、止めることの できる交渉力をもった勢力が現れていないという事態である。 キューバ危機以来の危機に、突然、世界は陥ろうとしている。 この危機的状況をめぐっては、多くの独立した放送が見られるが、 例えば、以下のものがある。関連するものは次々に登場しているから、それらを フォローしていけばいい。 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8HRcISVwYM 金とトランプのサイズの大きさに関連した核戦争が昨秋大きな話題となっていたが、 それが収まった（金がとくに脱核兵器的スタンスを見せるなど）と思ったら、 この騒ぎである。しかもこれは論争をしているのではなく、断定したうえで、武力行使に いますぐに入るという準備が進行するという段階なので、危機は間近にある。 ＊＊＊
US, France
and Britain agree to respond to Syrian gas attack
Donald Trump,
Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May vow to uphold ban on chemical weapons
Pippa
Crerar Deputy political editor
Tue 10 Apr 2018 18.24 BSTFirst published on Tue
10 Apr 2018 14.07 BST
Theresa May joined
the US president, Donald Trump, and the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, on
Tuesday in warning that they would respond to the Syrian gas attack in
order to uphold the global ban on the use of chemical weapons.
In separate
phone calls, the three allies agreed that the international community should
work closely together to make sure that the regime, and its backers, were held
to account.
The prime
minister is facing mounting pressure from senior Conservative MPs to support
US-led airstrikes against the regime of Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad,
after the suspected chemical attack in Douma that killed dozens of people.
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Earlier, she
chaired a meeting of senior intelligence officials and ministers at her
so-called “war cabinet”, the National Security Council, to discuss the crisis,
which is pushing the US and Russia closer to a direct
confrontation over the Middle East.
A Downing
Street spokesman said of the calls: “They agreed that reports of a chemical
weapons attack in Syria were
utterly reprehensible and, if confirmed, represented further evidence of the
Assad regime’s appalling cruelty against its own people and total disregard for
its legal obligations not to use these weapons.
“They agreed
that the international community needed to respond to uphold the worldwide
prohibition on the use of chemical weapons. They agreed they would continue
working closely together and with international partners to ensure that those
responsible were held to account.”
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UK government
sources have expressed concern that if Britain were to take part in any action
taken to punish the Assad, regime it would have to be approved by parliament.
David Cameron suffered a serious blow to his credibility when he lost a
historic Commons vote in 2013 over launching airstrikes.
However, Tom
Tugendhat, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, said: “Striking
Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons would degrade their ability to commit
further war crimes and could be done together with allies. It would not require
a vote in Parliament.”
A White House
spokesman said: “Both leaders condemned Syrian president Assad’s vicious
disregard for human life. The president and prime minister agreed not to allow
the use of chemical weapons to continue.”
May said
Britain was working urgently with allies and partners to assess what had happened
on the ground in Douma on Saturday, while deflecting questions over whether the
UK would take part in a joint international response to the atrocity.
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The prime
minister condemned the “brutality” of
the attack, adding: “Of course we’ll be talking about this issue,
including the discussions that have been taking place at the security council
of the United Nations.”
It came as the
war of words between the US and Russia escalated after Trump said a decision
was imminent on a response to the attack on the outskirts of Damascus, while
Russia said any western military response would have “grave repercussions”.
May has said
the Assad regime and its Russian backers must be held to account if found
responsible for the poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Douma that
killed at least 42 people.
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She did not
rule out joining international military action against the Syrian regime on a
trip to Scandinavia on Monday, but refused to elaborate on the range of options that
could be available to the government.
But she added:
“We are working urgently with our allies to asses what has happened. But, we
are also working with our allies on any action that is necessary.”
Boris Johnson,
the UK foreign secretary, has said that “a full range of options should be on
the table” for the international community in response to the attack. This is
understood to include airstrikes against military targets.
A former
minister, Nick Boles, said May had his “strong support” if she decided to join
the US and France in
taking action against the Syrian regime. “Parliament should have a chance to
debate the crisis early next week, but this should not become an excuse for
inaction or delay,” he said.
The former
attorney general Dominic Grieve added: “In view of the enormity of what has
been done, if there is a way of preventing its recurrence by the limited use of
force, that is one thing, and I would be supportive.” But he warned that a
wider campaign against Syria would need the backing of Parliament.
However, not
all Tory backbenchers were convinced. Bob Seely, a member of the foreign
affairs select committee who backed airstrikes against Syria in 2013, said: “If
we bomb now, I don’t think we’re going to achieve anything, but merely make a
cold war with Russia into a potential hot one.”
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