Sortu wishes to denounce the plans of foreign military aggression against the Syrian government and population.

Sortu expresses their rejection without ambiguities to the warmongering attitude adopted by the western powers to this crisis, exacerbated by the grave attack this past August 21st on the outskirts of Damascus.

Significantly, the plans for aggression were put in march even before counting on the results of the investigation by inspectors of the UN in relation to the attack as well as about the eventual use of chemical weapons.

The use of chemical weapons, even if irrefutably demonstrated, would effectively constitute a war crime, since the use of this type of illegal weapons is illegal according to international law. In any case, it is worth mentioning that these kinds of weapons have been used by governments such as Spain in Rif, the United States in Vietnam or Iraq in Kurdistan.

The international community disposes of sufficient diplomatic measures to confront the many challenges planted by this crisis without recurring to the doctrine of war. For the rest, the consequences of previous interventions – Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya – must serve as a lesson.

Sortu warns that any foreign military aggression constitutes a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter. This Charter exclusively authorizes the use of force in virtue of Article 51, when a state is attacked or with the expressed authorization of the Security Council, in virtue of Chapter VII. Today, none of these two conditions are given in the case of Syria.

However, military intervention is not only objectionable in light of international legality, but it is completely unacceptable for being a promise of a new, flagrant and massive violation of the rights of the Syrian population.

We find ourselves before a plan of aggression that threatens to multiply the devastating effects that foreign interference has already had in this conflict.

Once more, the international community hasn't been on top of things and instead of prioritizing the search for a political solution they have given priority to their strategic interests, making things worse with it, not just the situation in Syria but in the entire region.

It is time for weapons to be silent and for words to be heard. Sortu considers that only through dialogue among the parts can a scenario of lasting peace be reached.

We understand that an integral solution to the Syrian crisis mustn't set aside the legitimate rights of the Kurdish people.

In this sense, a negotiated arrangement for this conflict can have other positive effects, such as favouring a space for solutions at a regional level, with a view put on conflicts as bloody as that which affects the Palestinian people.

From a clear commitment against all kinds of foreign military intervention, Sortu commits itself to actively work in the Basque Country as well as in the international arena in favour of all of those initiatives that encourage an integral political solution to the open war in Syria.

In the same way we call on Basque society to express their solidarity with the Syrian population and to express their rejection to the budding imperialist aggression.