{"id":557,"date":"2017-04-18T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2017-04-18T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:32:38","slug":"french-government-outraged-over-syrian-officials-visit-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/04\/18\/french-government-outraged-over-syrian-officials-visit-to-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"French government ‘outraged’ over Syrian official\u2019s visit to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

France 24<\/h2>\n

New wires<\/p>\n

A top Syrian official attended a conference in Paris Tuesday on the invitation of French lawmakers, angering the government days after he was banned from a similar meeting in Brussels.<\/h2>\n

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault <\/a>tweeted that he was “outraged” by lawmakers from the conservative Republicans party’s invitation to Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman Soussan to a meeting on the conflict at the Russian cultural centre in Paris.<\/p>\n

European Parliament head Antonio Tajani had banned Soussan from a Brussels conference planned for April 10 in response to the suspected chemical attack <\/a>on a Syrian rebel-held town that killed at least 87 people last week.<\/p>\n

Ayrault expressed his anger at an invitation to Paris being extended to Soussan “after the despicable chemical attack”, which the US and Western allies have blamed on the Syrian regime.<\/p>\n

Republicans lawmaker Thierry Mariani told AFP that the event — named “Syria, A Tragedy That Cannot Go On”, had been organised before the attack, in collaboration with two Socialist lawmakers.<\/p>\n

“The conference had been planned for two months (to be held) in a room at the assembly,” Mariani told AFP.<\/p>\n

“But after the cancellation last week of a meeting in Brussels with the deputy minister, I felt like there was a risk of the conference being cancelled.”<\/p>\n

The event was subsequently moved to the Russian cultural centre, he said.<\/p>\n

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew into Moscow on Tuesday to confront the Kremlin over its support for President Bashar al-Assad as the US questioned if Russia was complicit in the alleged chemical attack.<\/p>\n

The attack in the town of Khan Sheikhun prompted US President Donald Trump to order cruise missile strikes on a Syrian air base.<\/p>\n

Russia reacted with fury to the US strikes and continues to cast doubt on the regime’s involvement in the Khan Sheikhun attack.<\/p>\n

(AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n

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