AFP, Brussels, 19 Nov 2012 – European Union foreign ministers, in a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, on Monday said they viewed Syria’s just-formed National Coalition to be the ‘legitimate representatives’ of the Syrian people.
A statement from the bloc’s 27 ministers welcomed the November 11 formation of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and said: ‘The EU considers them legitimate representatives of the aspirations of the Syrian people.’