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RUSSIA WARSHIPS TO ENTER SYRIA WATERS AS A MESSAGE TO WEST
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 18, 2011 - 19:54 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian
territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating
that the move represented a clear message to the West that Moscow
would resist any foreign intervention in the country's civil unrest.
Also on Friday, a Syrian official said Damascus has agreed "in
principle" to allow an Arab League observer mission into the country.
But the official said Friday that Syria was still studying the
details. The official asked not to be named because the issue is
so sensitive.
The Arab League suspended Syria earlier this week over its deadly
crackdown on an eight-month-old uprising. The 22-member body has
proposed sending hundreds of observers to the country to try to help
end the bloodshed.
The report came a day after a draft resolution backed by Arab and
European countries and the United States was submitted to the United
Nations General Assembly, seeking to condemn human rights violations
in the on-going violence in Syria.
Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia were among Arab states that
joined Germany, Britain, and France to sponsor the draft submitted to
the assembly's human rights committee. In Washington, State Department
spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. would sign on as a co-sponsor of
the resolution.
The draft demanded an end to violence, respect of human rights and
implementation by Damascus of a plan of action of the Arab League.
The move comes as clashes escalated in Syria and after Russia and China
used their veto in October to block a Security Council resolution
that would have condemned the Syrian government of President Bashir
for the violence.
Such a veto is not applicable in the 193-nation assembly, which will
consider the issue after the human rights committee reports back to it.
The UN says more than 3,500 people have been killed since unrest
erupted in spring against Assad, Haaretz reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 18, 2011 - 19:54 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian
territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating
that the move represented a clear message to the West that Moscow
would resist any foreign intervention in the country's civil unrest.
Also on Friday, a Syrian official said Damascus has agreed "in
principle" to allow an Arab League observer mission into the country.
But the official said Friday that Syria was still studying the
details. The official asked not to be named because the issue is
so sensitive.
The Arab League suspended Syria earlier this week over its deadly
crackdown on an eight-month-old uprising. The 22-member body has
proposed sending hundreds of observers to the country to try to help
end the bloodshed.
The report came a day after a draft resolution backed by Arab and
European countries and the United States was submitted to the United
Nations General Assembly, seeking to condemn human rights violations
in the on-going violence in Syria.
Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia were among Arab states that
joined Germany, Britain, and France to sponsor the draft submitted to
the assembly's human rights committee. In Washington, State Department
spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. would sign on as a co-sponsor of
the resolution.
The draft demanded an end to violence, respect of human rights and
implementation by Damascus of a plan of action of the Arab League.
The move comes as clashes escalated in Syria and after Russia and China
used their veto in October to block a Security Council resolution
that would have condemned the Syrian government of President Bashir
for the violence.
Such a veto is not applicable in the 193-nation assembly, which will
consider the issue after the human rights committee reports back to it.
The UN says more than 3,500 people have been killed since unrest
erupted in spring against Assad, Haaretz reported.