EU Yet To Accept Training Syrian Border Troops
Joseph S. Mayton - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - The European Union continues to discuss an Italian plan aimed at helping provide logistics to Syrian troops monitoring the Lebanon-Syria border. EU foreign ministers were cautious on Friday to the plan that would see EU personnel in civilian clothes help Syrian troops. This comes after Syria rejected UN peacekeepers along the border frontier. Damascus has said that any troop deployment along its border would be taken as a hostile act and would act accordingly. Last week, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said he has come to an agreement with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad on a joint project that would aid Syrian troops controlling the border. EU ministers have not accepted the plan to date. The need for EU help along the border is obvious as last week there was an attempt to smuggle fuel, cigarettes, electronics and cement across the border. Weapons are also a big concern, as most western nations believe Hezbollah weapons have been smuggled across the Syrian-Lebanese border.
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