France is sceptical about Syria monitor mission

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday he was "sceptical" about the chance of success for the Arab League observer mission in Syria and called for the conditions of the mission to be "clarified", Trend reports

"The conditions in which this observer mission is taking place warrant being clarified," Juppe said in an interview with France's i-Tele channel.

"Can they really access information freely?," he queried, admitting to being "sceptical."

France's top diplomat also renewed his appeals to Russia to support a United Nations resolution condemning the regime's crackdown on protesters demanding Assad's ouster.

"We can see here is an absolutely savage repression, that this regime really has no future and that it's therefore up to the international community to speak out."

President Nicolas Sarkozy separately called for the Arab observers to given "all the means and the freedom to do their work properly."