A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo.
BRITAIN HAS not ruled out any option to save lives in Syria, William Hague said yesterday, in a warning to the regime not to deploy chemical or biological weapons.
The Foreign Secretary said president Bashar Assad should not “doubt our resolve” to react strongly if the military escalate the conflict.
At a Friends of Syria meeting in Morocco, he urged more countries to rally behind the opposition and warned that time was short to secure transition.
France, which with the UK has already formally recognised the Syrian National Coalition as the government-in-waiting, said more than 100 nations present had now followed suit.
The apparent breakthrough came after Mr Hague told the gathering he was “deeply disappointed by the failure of the international community” to put sufficient weight behind it.
“Syria needs a political transition leading to an inclusive new government, with full executive authority,” he said in his opening remarks.
