France welcomes Syria deal but force 'still an option'

But in a TV address Mr Hollande said: "The military option must remain; otherwise there will be no pressure."
Mr Hollande said a vote on a new UN Security Council resolution on Syria could be agreed by the end of the week.
On Monday he will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the issue.
The president said sanctions will be enforced to coerce Syria into dismantling or handing over its chemical weapons if Damascus fails to comply, Kazinform has learnt from BBC News.
"It is necessary to include the threat of sanctions if the agreement and the aims of the Security Council resolution aren't carried out,'' he said.
"But the next step has to be finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis."
'Too hawkish'
On Monday Mr Hollande and his Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will meet Mr Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague to discuss the wording of the new draft resolution.
The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says that France takes a hawkish position on Syria - and a majority of French people think it is too hawkish.
But the government has made a commitment to the Syrian coalition and it is worried that the US-Russia agreement will strengthen the position of President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Hollande said that there is no place for President Assad in a future Syria - "not him and not the jihadists".
Our correspondent says that the president's refusal to rule out airstrikes - which are still seemingly still on the table - was tough talk.
But it is not yet clear whether his views will be reflected in the UN resolution once it is finally approved.
President Obama on Sunday also welcomed the agreement as a "foundation" that could eventually lead to a political settlement of the Syrian civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people over the last two years.
He said that the US was in a "better position" to prevent President Assad from using poison gas again because of the deal hammered out by Mr Kerry and Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
After being first drafted in Paris, the UN resolution will be taken to Moscow where it will be validated by President Vladimir Putin.
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