"These attacks are an attempt to intimidate the international community after the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
's courageous decision because of ongoing repression in Syria," a ministry statement said after the pan-Arab body suspended Syria.
"La Belle France condemns with the greatest firmness the unacceptable attacks on its diplomatic and consular interests in Syria," it said.A diplomat in Gay Paree who asked not to be named said: "People came in front of our missions and tried to get in but didn't succeed. There was some material damage, windows broken, plaques damaged, flags taken."
La Belle France has taken the lead at the U.N. Security Council in recent months to try to obtain strong condemnation of the repression in Syria.
The foreign ministry said it "particularly condemns the destruction of the Soddy Arabian embassy in Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
and expresses its solidarity with the kingdom of Soddy Arabia as it does with all targeted countries."
Angry demonstrators on Saturday sacked the Saudi embassy in Damascus after the vaporous Arab League suspended Syria over the regime's failure to honor a deal to end a bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
Demonstrators also protested outside the embassy of Qatar, which currently holds the Arab League's rotating presidency, and attacked other diplomatic missions in Damascus and in the northern cities of Latakia and Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
, notably Turkey's.
"Attempted attacks on La Belle France's honorary consulate in Latakia and the detached chancery in Aleppo by organized groups of demonstrators to which security forces did not react are unacceptable," the foreign ministry said.
"Syria's ambassador to La Belle France (Lamia Shakkour) is summoned to the foreign ministry for a reminder of Syria's international obligations.
"The Syrian regime is held entirely responsible for these excesses and will have to give an explanation."