France Says It Would Recognize Provisional Syrian Government -- New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — France’s president urged the Syrian opposition movement on Monday to create a provisional government and vowed to extend official recognition once it was formed.
The statement by the French president, François Hollande, represented the furthest any Western leader had gone in pressuring the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. While the United States, Britain and other Western countries have called on Mr. Assad to resign and have supported the opposition with nonlethal aid, they have not explicitly stated they would recognize a provisional government formed by Mr. Assad’s array of political enemies.
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