NATO rejects possibility of military intervention in Syria

AFP reported that on May 20, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed concern about the violence in Syria but affirmed that the alliance "has no intention" of taking military action against the Damascus government.

"We strongly condemn the conduct of the Syrian security forces and their repression against the Syrian people and we call on the Syrian leadership to consider the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people... But NATO has no intention of intervening in Syria," Mr. Rasmussen said at a press conference at the NATO summit in Chicago.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (Source: Reuters)

Previously, on May 20, in the town of Douma on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, a roadside bomb exploded just 150 meters away from the convoy of Major General Robert Mood, head of the United Nations observer mission in Syria./.

According to (Vietnam News Agency)