France ‘pessimistic’ on Syria, doubts success of peace talks

[…] « In Syria, I am sadly quite pessimistic », Laurent Fabius told delegates at the World Policy Conference in Monaco. France, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fiercest critics, was the first Western power to provided non-lethal military aid to the Free Syrian Army, while it was also the first Western state to recognize the Syrian National Coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people. […]