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UK Foreign Minister William Hague

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Aug 29, 2013

UK Foreign Minister: ‘We Cannot Allow the Use of Chemical Weapons’

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >William Hague, Telegraph</span>

We all live under the protection of this global system of arms control, just as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has spared us from the threat of nuclear holocaust, which blighted my parents’ generation.

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Meeting of NATO Defense Ministers, June 4, 2013

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Aug 29, 2013

NATO Supports but Stays Out of Possible Syria Strikes by its Members

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Paul Richter and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times</span>

The White House got a vote of support from the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the key Western military alliance.

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USAF KC-135R Stratotanker at Incirlik air base

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Aug 28, 2013

Turkey may Open İncirlik Base for NATO Mission in Syria

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Murat Yetkin, Hurriyet Daily News</span>

Turkey may open its strategic İncirlik air base for possible military operations into neighboring Syria, if the Western defense alliance NATO decides for an intervention in the ongoing civil war, a ranking Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News on Aug. 26.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 5, 2013

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Aug 28, 2013

NATO Condemns Use of Chemical Weapons and Warns that ‘Those Responsible must be Held Accountable’

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO</span>

The North Atlantic Council has just discussed the situation in Syria and in particular the horrific use of chemical weapons around Damascus on 21 August.

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NATO membership cannot "replace a strong national defence capability"

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Aug 27, 2013

President of Finland: NATO Membership no Substitute for Strong National Defense

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >YLE</span>

President Sauli Niinistö told Finland’s diplomatic corps that the country’s current relationship with NATO had served its interests.

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Syrian soldier, May 14, 1992

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Aug 27, 2013

Pentagon Sees Syrian Military, Not Chemical Sites, as Target

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Thom Shanker, C.J. Chivers and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times</span>

President Obama is considering a range of limited military actions against Syria that are designed to “deter and degrade” the ability of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to launch chemical weapons, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.

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Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters, June 4, 2013

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Aug 27, 2013

Report: NATO Planning Emergency Meeting on Syria on Thursday

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >ITAR-TASS</span>

NATO is planning an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria in the wake of the chemical attack in suburban Damascus on August 21. According to the available information, the meeting might take place on August 29, a well-informed diplomatic source told Itar-Tass.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

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Aug 26, 2013

Syria: Russia Dooms Hopes of UN Security Council Resolution

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Raf Sanchez and Roland Oliphant, Telegraph</span>

As the US, Britain and France edged closer to approving strikes in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons, the Kremlin said that the West was moving down “a very dangerous path.”

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, February 2012

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Aug 26, 2013

Turkey Readies for Syria Intervention with NATO-Backed Coalition

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Today's Zaman</span>

As speculation on whether or not chemical gas was used in a recent attack in Syria — killing more than 1,000 and injuring many more in Damascus — rang alarm bells globally, Ankara, along with a NATO-backed international coalition, has started to ready itself against a possible intervention in Syria.

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Meeting of the North Atlantic Council

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Aug 26, 2013

NATO Members Could Act Against Syria Without UN Mandate

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Ian Traynor, Guardian</span>

Barack Obama is unlikely to have much trouble mustering a Nato coalition of the willing if Washington opts for military intervention in Syria in response to the alleged chemical weapons atrocities by the Assad regime.

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