Brazil and Ecuador come out against airstrikes in Syria

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The governments of Brazil and Ecuador are taking a bold stance this week: They’re rejecting United States-led airstrikes in Syria as an invasion and unnecessary escalation of violence.

This is the latest pushback by South American countries against foreign adventures carried out by the White House and/or its allies — but one that’s slightly harder to decode than previous disputes.

Syria’s government itself appears to welcome the air war in its territory. Bombs dropped by US and Arab powers are targeting Islamist militants that the Syrian regime is fighting, too.

But that doesn’t make it legal, Brazil and Ecuador argue.

“The actions they carried out go against international rights, for they have not been recognized by the UN General Assembly nor authorized by the Security Council,” Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The ministry in Quito called the campaign a “violation of sovereignty of the Syrian state.”

Brazil took a different tack.

“The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict,” Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told the United Nations Wednesday. That’s been made clear by the “systematic massacre of the Syrian people” and the fighting in other crisis zones like Palestine, Libya and Ukraine, she said…. see more

source: Globalpost

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