France lost diplomatic influence "in Syria

France is holding a meeting on Syria on Tuesday on the main regional partners from. Russia is conspicuously absent from the negotiations, sign a lot of that in France for Syrian diplomacy fails.

The meeting Tuesday is expected to focus on the fight against Islamic law (IS) team, protection of civilians, and the Security Council of a resolution proposal to the United Nations (which aims to put an end to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's use of barrel bombs) France plans on the table this week.

"I called our Germany, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and American friends, and others in Paris next week ... try to move things forward," said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabians on Friday.

However, when asked whether the negotiations would include Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Layover Fabians said: "I do not think that."

Both Turkey and Jordan are expected to send representatives to Paris, but not Iran, which is closely linked to Russia and the Syrian government.

Whether deliberately ignored by Paris to Moscow or vice versa is not clear, however, Fabians told reporters Friday that "there are other meetings where we will work with the Russians."

France did not participate in the last round (unclear) Syrian talks in Vienna last Friday.

Together with his colleagues from the allies Saudi Arabia and Turkey, US Secretary of State John Kerry met for two hours on a single Sergei Layover, the Foreign Minister of Russia, which has been transformed into a four-year Syrian civil war dynamics of the bombing of Assad's enemies.

"We wanted to go all the way"

Meanwhile in Syria, the United States and Russia is one of the leading military charge (although somewhat passed purposes), and the French contingent of nothing much. Last month, the French military began only two airstrikes in Syria.

Back in 2013, when Bashar al-Assad's regime has been accused of using chemical weapons in Paris was calling loudly military intervention to overthrow the regime in Damascus and end the Syrian crisis.

"We wanted to go all the way to 2013, said the unnamed diplomat told Reuters. "But we found ourselves isolated," he said, according to the US President Barack Obama's reluctance to come good "red line" threat to Damascus, where chemical weapons are used.

"Now we have lost our influence and we do not know where we are going," said the diplomat.

Russia seems to have the same opinion, its assessment of Paris. In early October Alexei Pushover head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Duma, expressed his belief that France is no longer important in the region.

"In Russia, no one is talking about the French role anymore," he said. "We're talking about the United States and our contacts with Washington, though."

Change attitudes Assad

Worldwide for the Syrian strategy towards consensus tends to neutralize the Islamic State team, even if it means temporarily playing in the hands of the Syrian regime.

Washington has softened his position toward Assad (who was given the red carpet treatment in Moscow last week).

German Chancellor Angela Terkel also showed that Assad might be included in future negotiations on a political solution in Syria.

However, France remains strongly opposed to Assad for the legitimacy of the failed policy of supporting moderate rebels in Syria does not stop Paris France forging line, the Assad regime is directly responsible for the crisis in Syria and France wants They are neither Assad nor the team. "

"Our fiasco in Syria

Conservative opposition in France concerned about the French role worsens.

Two former prime ministers, who are both angling to become the right-wing opposition party, Nicolas Sarky, "Republicans" in the 2017 presidential election, called for a significant change in the direction of the candidate.

Who was also foreign minister between 2011 and 2012, Alan JUMP ,, then-President Nicolas Sarky wrote a blog post on October 24, titled "Our Syrian Fiasco.

"I think it's time for us to eat some humble pie and sit at the negotiating table in Geneva, Bashar al-Assad," he wrote. "Maybe we can save a little face."

In mid-September and another former Prime Minister of France Francois Dillon has called for a new diplomatic line and restore the friendly diplomatic relations with Russia, which has discredited so crazy in recent years. "

"France seems to be out of the game," he wrote in his diary. "It is time for France to reconsider diplomatic strategy."

Laws Rudy Sallies, the centrist party UDI and former member of the French Foreign Affairs, wrote in September also need to change.

"The French government is quite simply that still believes in defeating DASHING [Arabic acronym used French politicians on the squad] and Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, at the same time an opportunity," he wrote.

"This is destructive and blinkers diplomatic posture may continue to isolate