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France to ask ICC for war crimes investigation in Syria

By Reuters | Oct. 10, 2016

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Paris: France will ask the International Criminal Court's prosecutor to launch an investigation into war crimes it says have been committed by Syrian and Russian forces in eastern Aleppo.

Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, speaking after a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria was vetoed at the weekend by Russia, also said President Francois Hollande would not welcome his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Oct. 19 to just trade "pleasantries".

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