People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 35
September 01,2013
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Vol. XXXVII
No. 35 September 01,2013 |
No Military Intervention in Syria
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 25.
THE United States and its allies are planning a military intervention in Syria against the Syrian government. For a long time, the US and NATO have been trying for a military intervention like in Libya to topple the Bashar al-Assad government. But they were thwarted because the UN Security Council did not approve such an action.
The current
pretext for the military attack is the alleged use of chemical
weapons by the Syrian government forces near Damascus. There
has to
be an independent investigation to substantiate this claim and
if so
who has used the neurotoxic agent. The US and the Western
powers have
no credibility in making this charge as they used a similar
pretext
of “weapons of mass destruction” to attack Iraq.
The Polit
Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly opposes the reported moves to
launch a
military attack on Syria which is to be discussed at a meeting
of
military chiefs of the US and its allies at Amman in Jordan.
The
Government of India should come out against any military
intervention
and advocate a political solution for the conflict in Syria.
