French Foreign Minister Alain Juppesaid he would bring up the gravity of the situation in Syria with his counterparts at a meeting of the G8 economies that began Wednesday.
Speaking on French radio on Tuesday morning, Foreign Minister Alain Juppesaid that Monday's plan was "precisely the response to one of the major questions of this ratings agency that mentions the insufficiency of European economic governance".
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppesaid the conference needed to exert the maximum pressure on the Syrian government and also on Russia, but insisted there was no military option on the table and France could not envisage such an option without an international mandate.