Western Nations Expel Syrian Diplomats
May 29th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal:
Syria’s international isolation deepened Tuesday as several Western countries said they were expelling Syrian diplomats, in a coordinated response to the killing of 108 civilians last week in a single attack.
The U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, France, Germany and some other European countries announced Tuesday they were kicking out senior Syrian senior envoys. The U.S., which had already downgraded diplomatic relations earlier this year, said Tuesday that Syrian chargé d’affaires Zuheir Jabbour has been given 72 hours to leave following the tank and artillery attack on the village of Houla.
“We hold the Syrian government responsible for this slaughter of innocent lives,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement. “This massacre is the most unambiguous indictment to date of the Syrian government’s flagrant violations of its United Nations Security Council obligations.”
