Foreign Secretary to host ‘London 11’ Friends of Syria meeting

Speaking after the announcement that the ‘London 11,’ the core group of the Friends of Syria, would meet in London next week, a Foreign Office spokesperson said:

The Foreign Secretary will host the Foreign Ministers of the ‘London 11’ in London on 15 May.

This meeting comes at a time of widespread indiscriminate regime violence against civilians, plans to hold elections which will be a grotesque parody of democracy, and the regime’s complete failure to provide humanitarian access. Now is the right time for those countries who support a democratic future for Syria, free from Assad, to come together to do discuss how we press forward with this aim.

Foreign Ministers will discuss how best to significantly step-up our support to the Syrian opposition, make urgent progress on improving the deteriorating humanitarian crisis and reinvigorate a political process that has stalled due to regime intransigence.

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بيان من الخارجية البريطانية يعلن استضافة وزير الخارجية اجتماع مجموعة لندن 11 لبحث زيادة دعم المعارضة السورية وتحسين الوضع الإنساني وإحياء العملية السياسية.