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Thursday 22 Oct 2015 - 13:42 Makkah mean time-9-1-1437
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Dubai, (IINA) - Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid Al-Attiyah said during an interview on Wednesday that Qatar could intervene militarily in Syria following Russia's intervention in support of Al-Assad regime, but it still prefers a political solution to the crisis, Arab News reported citing CNN.
These comments were made in a CNN interview, which drew a swift reply from Assad’s government with a senior official warning that Damascus would respond harshly to such “direct aggression”.
When asked if Qatar supported the Saudi position, which does not rule out a military option in Syria, Al-Attiyah said: “Anything that protects the Syrian people and Syria from partition, we will not spare any effort to carry it out with our Saudi and Turkish brothers, no matter what this is”. He also stated: “If a military intervention protects the Syrian people from the brutality of the regime, we will do it”.
He then added: “We do not fear any confrontation, and thus we will call for dialogue from a position of strength because we believe in peace and the shortest path to peace is through direct dialogue”.
In response, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad was quoted by Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen television, saying that “if Qatar carries out its threat to militarily intervene in Syria, then we will consider this a direct aggression. Our response will be very harsh”.
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