French President Francois Hollande has accused the British Prime Minister David Cameron of committing a ‘school boy error’ in losing the parliamentary vote on Syria.
Hollande said Cameron has been left “weakened” after his plans to launch an offensive against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was defeated in a Commons vote on Thursday, August 29.

“He committed a schoolboy error. He overestimated his strength and didn’t find a way of convincing his Parliamentary majority,” Holland reportedly said during a chat with French journalists.

“Cameron comes out of this affair weakened. And it’s not good for Great Britain.”

Earlier this week, France announced that it would submit a resolution to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, which will give Syria 15 days to provide a ‘complete and definitive’ declaration of the location and types of its alleged chemical weapons.

France is the only major European country that supports US calls for a military intervention in the Arab country. Hollande, however, has been criticized by opposition Right for allowing the country to become diplomatically isolated.

The rhetoric of war against Syria first gained momentum on August 21, when the militants operating inside the Middle Eastern country and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that over a thousand people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds near Damascus.

Damascus, however, categorically rejected the accusation and said the militants had conducted the attack to draw in foreign military intervention.

By Press TV

 

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