UK should look at 'military options' in Syria, says FM

UK should look at 'military options' in Syria, says FM

Boris Johnson tells British lawmakers 'more kinetic options' should be on table

By Busra Akin Dincer

LONDON (AA) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a parliamentary committee on Thursday the U.K. should look at “more kinetic” military options in Syria.

Johnson spoke in front of British lawmakers ahead of a high-level meeting of foreign ministers scheduled for Sunday to consider new options for a solution in the war-torn country.

"It is right now that we should be looking again at the more kinetic options, the military options," Johnson told the Foreign Affairs Committee but added: "We can't do anything without a coalition.”

Johnson said most people had been changing their minds about intervention. "They’re thinking we can’t let this go on forever," he said and added: "Certainly people want to see a new set of options.”

Talks with Russia had “run out of road” Johnson said and claimed Sunday’s meeting of foreign ministers -- to include U.S. Foreign Secretary John Kerry -- would “canvass all the options”.

On Tuesday, Johnson had called for Russia to be investigated for war crimes over its role in Syria and for protests to take place outside Moscow’s embassy. However, Johnson said on Thursday the U.K. did not want an “endless confrontation” with Russia.

Answering a question about Turkish-Kurdish relations, Johnson said: “Clearly, Turks have concerns about some groups of Kurds.

“They [the Turkish government] make no distinction between the YPG and PKK for instance, whereas the Americans see things differently.”

However, Johnson said everybody “including the Turks” agreed on the importance of Iraqi Kurds who had driven “Daesh out of their bits of Iraq”.

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