British minister opposes arming Syrian rebels
In an exclusive interview, the United Kingdom's Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Hugh Robertson said that further militarization is not the way to end the Syria war.
AMMAN, Jordan — Hugh Robertson, Britain’s minister of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, has opposed calls to arm the Syrian rebels, instead insisting that all sides need to return to the negotiating table.
“Generally speaking if you want to end a war, arming both sides is not the way to do it,” he told Al-Monitor in an exclusive interview on March 26, on the sidelines of his tour of Syrian refugees in Jordan.
