UN Security Council postpones vote on Syria resolution

2012-07-18

The UN Security Council on Wednesday (July 18th) postponed a vote on a Syria resolution following a request from UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria Kofi Annan, AFP reported.

If approved, the resolution would extend the mandate of the UN monitoring mission in Syria and require that the Syrian military pull heavy weapons out of cities within 10 days or face sanctions.

"We will be voting [Thursday] morning," said Britain's United Nations Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the bombing that killed three top Syrian security officials Wednesday showed the need for a UN resolution to end the crisis.

"It is clear that the situation is deteriorating rapidly," Hague said during a visit to Lithuania, calling on "members of the UN Security Council […] to put their weight behind the enforcement of joint special envoy Kofi Annan's plan to end the violence".

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the Security Council to unite and take action on the "very serious" situation in Syria.

Also on Wednesday, Arab diplomats agreed to hold emergency talks on Sunday in Doha, according to Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi.

Al-Arabi said the meeting will "examine the consequences of the situation in Syria from all angles".

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سعيد

2012-7-18

The system claims that all those accidents that include the killing and the massacres are individual incidents although they are spread all over the Syrian governorates. There is no desecration of mosques, no violation of their sacredness, and no bombardment of the minarets, as if the Syrian people have all shifted to become one of them. During the night, an outstanding producer is creative in the direction of the photos of bombing the minarets and the desecration of the mosques as well as the violation of the sanctities of the lives, money, dignity, houses, scholars by his mobile phone, and the regime of killing in Syria has violated every sanctity, committed all the forbidden acts, and carried out the most heinous crimes against the people.
عربي

2012-7-18

Allah has bestowed all the Arabs, as he sent down the holy Quran in our Arabic language. What a great honor from the Lord of the universe for us humans. Why don't we honor ourselves as long as Allah honored us? Why do we always insist on degradation and humiliation until such time when the oppressors believe that they have no limits and everything is allowed for them even shedding the blood of the innocent people without judgment, fear or remorse?