“U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Turkey may seek NATO’s support in dealing withSyria as the UN Security Council made clear the Assad regime’s truce violations won’t prevent the deployment of as many as 300 cease-fire observers.
Turkey may invoke the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s charter provision triggering consultations if a member’s security is threatened, Clinton said yesterday in Paris following a meeting of the alliance in Brussels. While there is little sentiment for military intervention to oust Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, involving NATO would add a new lever of pressure on the Damascus government.
“We have to keep Assad off-balance by leaving options on the table,” Clinton said at the “Friends of Syria” meeting in Paris. Turkey has already discussed with NATO “the burden of Syrian refugees on Turkey, the outrageous shelling across the border from Syria into Turkey a week ago, and that Turkey is considering formally invoking Article 4” of the NATO charter…..”
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