Questioned this Sunday evening in “Faced with Buxant” about the official position of Belgium about American strikes in Iran, Maxime Prévot wanted to recall the line defended by the country: priority to diplomacy and respect for international law.
“We are in any case in solidarity with initiatives, first and foremost, diplomatic which were carried out so far to effectively prevent the nuclear weapon from falling into the hands of the Iranians,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs. But, concerning the strikes in themselves, the tone changes: “The strikes in themselves which have been launched without an international mandate, without a self-defense process, can obviously ask questions”.
According to him, the legal foundations of these actions are fragile, even non -existent. “We are not going to lie. Indeed, we cannot rejoice in these attacks, ”he conceded. And to add: “It is not actually, if we take the legal angle, in accordance with international law”.
Faced with an escalation of violence in the region, Maxime Prévot insists on the urgency of a appeasement: “These missiles must be sent on both sides. There are already hundreds of civilian victims. What is now necessary is to find serenity ”.
The Minister is based on the recent remarks of the head of Israeli diplomacy, who considers that the actions of Israel made it possible to delay “two to three years” the Iranian nuclear program. For Prévot, this opens a “negotiation window”: “We have an important time space for negotiation”.
“These attacks are not welcome if we want to avoid climbing,” concludes Maxime Prévot, calling to avoid “total conflagration of the sub-region with effects on the potentially European continent”.
