‘Outraged’ by rising death toll in Syria, General Assembly demands halt to all violence

Yet another (the fifth) non-binding resolution from the UN General Assembly on Syria, still none from the Security Council.

Adopted by a vote of 107 in favour to 12 against, with 59 abstentions, the Assembly text expressed the body’s outrage at the “rapidly increasing death toll” in Syria, which the UN estimates to be in the tens of thousands. The resolution also strongly condemns the Syrian Government’s increased use of heavy weapons, and also condemns ongoing “widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms.”