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ANKARA, March 19 (KUNA) -- Visiting Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad-Addine
Al-Othmani said on Monday that his country rejected military intervention in
Syria to end the bloodshed, noting that such step would complicate things
further and called instead for political pressure.
Al-Othmani said, in a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart
Ahmet Davutoglu, that a military intervention would not solve the crisis in
Syria, but will deteriorate the situation in region as a whole.
The visiting minister also noted that a political and diplomatic pressure
on the Syrian regime, and to force it to stop its bloody campaign, asserting
support by his country to efforts exerted by UN-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi
Annan in Syria.
On another front, Al-Othmani highlighted other issues during his talk with
the Turkish minister, most notably bilateral relations and commercial exchange
between the two sides.
For his part, Davutoglu said that "Turkey could not remain indifferent to
developments in Syria," pointing to a "sharp increase in the number of Syrians
fleeing to Turkey in the past few weeks," saying the number has exceeded 16,
000.
The Moroccan minister arrived in Turkey last night for a three-day visit.
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