Federal Republic of Germany, French Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister David Cameron
On August 18, 2011, the leaders of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on alleged human rights violations in Syria. The following are excerpts from that statement. The Syrian authorities have ignored the urgent appeals made over recent days by the UN Security Council, numerous States in the region, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Secretaries-General of the League of Arab States and of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. They continue to cruelly and violently repress their people and flatly refuse to fulfill their legitimate aspirations. They have ignored the voices of the Syrian people…
