Text tabled : B7-0425/2012

  Pino Arlacchi (S&D), in writing. – I strongly support this resolution because it reiterates its condemnation in the strongest possible terms of the increasing use of indiscriminate violence in Syria. In particular, we denounce the use of heavy artillery and shelling against populated areas, and horrific killings by the Syrian army, security forces and the Shabiha, as well as by various opposition forces. I also would like to denounce, as a matter of priority, the support given by various external actors and states to all parties to the conflict, with financial, logistical and tactical aid, including the supply of weapons, munitions and all other types of military equipment. We must bear in mind that any further militarisation of the conflict can only bring greater suffering to the Syrian people and the region as a whole.