UN Security Council orders end to observer mission in Syria

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UN Security Council orders end to observer mission in Syria

2012-08-16

The UN Security Council on Thursday (August 16th) ordered the end of the UN Supervision Mission (UNSMIS) in Syria, AFP reported.

"The conditions to continue UNSMIS were not fulfilled," France's UN ambassador Gerard Araud said after a Council meeting on the Syria conflict.

"The mission will come to an end at midnight on Sunday," Edmond Mulet, the UN's assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, told reporters.

Earlier this year, the Security Council authorised sending up to 300 unarmed military observers to Syria to monitor a ceasefire that former UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, negotiated with President Bashar Assad.

The ceasefire did not hold and UNSMIS suspended its patrols on June 15th.

As of Thursday, the number of observers was cut to 101 unarmed military observers and 72 civilian staff. Mulet said the last observer will leave Damascus on Friday next week.

The Security Council supported a plan by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to establish a political liaison office in Damascus to monitor events there.

Mulet told reporters 20-30 people will probably be involved, with political, humanitarian and military experts taking part.

He said Syrian President Bashar Assad approved setting up the office.

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حميد خلف

2012-8-17

For how long will we see oppression against one of our brothers and stand by idly? Why do we need a Security Council resolution for a heroic act through which the regime of Al Assad will be eliminated, that wreaked havoc on earth practiced against our brothers in Syria? The Syrian people have suffered from the bitterness of the repressive genocidal practices carried out by the regime of Al Assad. There are no audible voices coming from the Syrians and all the Arabs are silent about the massacres against our brothers in Syria without any right. Bashar increased his tyranny and corruption. The number of the dead and the wounded people has increased, which the corrupt and oppressive Syrian regime took all the responsibility for them. This regime should be eliminated.
صفاء خليل

2012-8-17

The Arabic governments must work on creating the necessary steps to put an end to the crimes of Bashar Al Assad against the Syrian people. The problem happening in Syria has exceeded a full year and until now, the problem occurring in Syria did not end, but rather it exacerbated. Syria is now suffering from a very dangerous situation, as every day many martyrs die as a result of what the men of Bashar Al-Assad are doing, those who use the extreme violence against the valiant Syrian people who are defending their revolution that took place in order to achieve their objectives. However, what the Arabs are blamed for is that they see their brothers being killed without doing anything to help them and, indeed, there is a deliberate deceleration.
خالد جميل

2012-8-17

It is shameful to see that violence has become an objective and a target in any way and irrespective of the catastrophic consequences and the high price that the Syrians would pay when they wake up from their comma. This would start with the cost of the unjustifiable destruction that has no convincing reasons. All of this came under the slogan of the deposition of the suppressive regime, even if the price was burning Syria and destroying all the government institutions and economies of the state, whose wealth was depleted and whose children were displaced, in addition to many wounded and disabled people, widows, poor and unemployed citizens. If this is the price of the freedom and democracy, then let them go to hell because there are other ways for resistance. Those who interfere in the internal files in this way will pay high price because of their exposed plans under the cover of the so-called Arab Spring to solve their crises and psychological complexes and ambitions at the expense of the destruction of these peoples. However, they will face the fate of Gadhafi and Saddam, because this is a universal norm. Stop playing with the pains of the people and trading in the empty slogans that will solve nothing even if the opposition. Quite the contrary, Syria will enter into a dark tunnel that may be worse than its conditions under the suppressive regime.