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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11495

21 February 2016
SPECIAL EDITION - EUROPEAN COUNCIL - 18 AND 19 FEBRUARY 2016 / (ae) syria
European leaders call for bombing in civilian areas to stop immediately

Brussels, 21/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - Late on the night of Friday 19 February, the heads of state and government of the European Union called for “an immediate cessation of bombardments in civilian areas” in Syria, “in particular in the corridor between Aleppo and the Turkish-Syrian border”.

In its conclusions, the European Council condemned the “repeated” bombing of civilian infrastructure, saying it was concerned by the risk of further military escalation. The Council called...