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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that arming Syrian rebels is a bad idea, and parliamentary leaders should think long and hard before acting.
"The risks [of arming the Syrian opposition] would be incalculable," she said in an address to Parliament.
Earlier in May, Merkel had noted that Berlin would never send arms to the militants in Syria, saying, "Germany will under no circumstances send weapons to Syria - a country in civil war - no matter how other countries deal with the arms embargo."
Those comments were made after the European Union, pushed by Britain and France, decided to lift the Union's arms embargo on the militants in Syria in order to facilitate the dispatch of weapons to the armed groups in the Arab country.
The unrest in Syria erupted over two years ago and many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

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