Marine Le Pen calls for renewal of French ties with Assad

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has called for the restoration of diplomatic relations with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ahead of the second round of elections on 24 April. The far-right candidate criticised President Emmanuel Macron’s policy of isolating Assad when outlining her foreign policy platform at a news conference in Paris on Wednesday, according to state-owned French broadcaster RFI. Instead, she said “channels of dialogue and communication” were needed “in critical, complex moments of crisis… especially when [Syria] was confronted with Islamist terror,”…

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