Hollande: Threat From Islamic State Is Global
Updated: 10:08am UK, Monday 15 September 2014
International efforts to combat Islamic State militants have taken on an added urgency after the beheading of a British aid worker and the threat to kill a second UK hostage.
The brutal murder of David Haines comes amid moves to form a broad coalition against the terror group which has grabbed large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is attending a summit - spearheaded by French President Francois Hollande and Iraqi President Fuad Masum in Paris this morning - bringing together 30 countries to co-ordinate a response to the IS threat.
Mr Hollande opened the summit warning: "The terrorist threat is global and the response must be global... There is no time to lose."
Mr Masum told delegates there was a need for a "quick response" to the Islamist group which he said had "committed massacres and genocidal crimes".
Prince Saud al Faisal, foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, and representatives of the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are also among the delegates at the conference.
Ahead of the talks, Washington said several countries in the Middle East had offered to join airstrikes against the militants, while Australia said it would send aircraft and personnel and France announced it would begin reconnaissance missions over Iraq.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who is under pressure to act following the killing of Mr Haines, has given no indication over whether he would commit military forces to airstrikes.
Video footage of the British aid worker's death showed a knife-wielding militant who speaks with a British accent.
The clip also included a threat to kill a second hostage, Alan Henning, who was a volunteer on an aid convoy.
It follows the beheadings of two American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
Mr Cameron vowed to "hunt down" the "monsters" who killed Mr Haines, and said the crime would "strengthen our resolve" to smash the extremist network which has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
He said the UK would seek to "mobilise the broadest possible support to bear down" on IS at the United Nations.
"This is not about British combat troops on the ground, it is about working with others to extinguish this terrorist threat," he said.
"As this strategy intensifies we are ready to take whatever steps are necessary to deal with this threat and keep our country safe."
Explaining Mr Cameron's dilemma, Sky's Chief Political Correspondent Jon Craig said: "He tried to get a vote in Parliament last year on missile strikes on Syria.
"Thirty or so Conservative MPs voted against, as did Labour, and he lost the vote. He was humiliated. So he doesn't particularly want to go down that route again."
US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is also in Paris and has been touring the Middle East to rally support, told CBS: "We have countries in this region, countries outside of this region, in addition to the United States, all of whom are prepared to engage in military assistance, in actual strikes if that is what it requires."
However, Iraq's president has said it is "not necessary" for Arab powers to join airstrikes against Islamic State.
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