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Ischinger slams EU for ‘helpless’ efforts on Syria conflict

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The EU has “looked away” from the years-long conflict in Syria, veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger said Saturday as he suggested the bloc should develop a peace plan for the region.

Ischinger, who chairs the Munich Security Conference, a major foreign and security policy fixture, slammed the bloc for limiting its actions to “helpless verbal appeals.”

His remarks on Twitter followed this week’s op-ed by 14 European foreign ministers on the conflict in the northern region of Idlib, which further escalated Thursday.

Ischinger applauded the op-ed but asked, “Why have we — the EU — looked away as the Syrian tragedy developed over the last nine years? Why not one effort to present an EU peace plan, why only helpless verbal appeals?”

“Non-action also produces guilt!” he wrote.

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