Leaders from Finland, Netherlands and Austria have raised their opposition about lifting the ban of supplying arms to rebels in Syria. This embargo is going to expire on June 1. The European leaders met and raised their opinion about the issue at European Leaders Summit held in Brussels on Friday. France and Britain want to lift this ban.

On this, Herman Van Rompuy, EU Council President has maintained that the foreign ministers are to decide the final stand. All the foreign ministers will be meeting on March 22 in Dublin. "We tasked our foreign ministers to put this issue of Syria and the eventual lifting of the arms embargo as point No. 1 on their agenda and of course to find common ground", he added.

Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte apprehended that supplying arms to Syrian opposition would lead to more violence and there are chances that situation of conflict would further aggravate. In addition, he said that cases of this violence becoming worse are more if Russia continues to be active.

On the other hand, the United States has also refused to supply arms to Syrian opposition in its latest move. Wendy Sherman, U. S. Undersecretary for Political Affairs said that there is a need to solve the conflict in Syria rather than triggering it by supplying arms to rebels.