Tag: Syria
Hungary says 2 hostages in Syria are alive The Hungarians were snatched Saturday from a company’s offices in southeast Syria, the spokesman said, declining to reveal further details citing security concerns.
Rising Syria deaths question UN monitoring mission A sharp rise in the number of deaths in the Syrian uprising is casting fresh doubt on the success of a UN peace plan, and testing a ceasefire deal.
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Security Council – The Situation in the Middle East: Syria un-library: Saturday 21 April 2012 The UN Security Council met at 6755th meeting to discuss the Situation in Syria.The Security Council discussed the letter dated 19 April 2012 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2012/238) At this meeting, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2043 (2012) unanimously; Observers to Be Deployed Expeditiously, Subject to Assessment of Relevant Developments on the Ground.
U.N. chief calls for hundreds more monitors in Syria Hundreds more observers should be sent to Syria to ensure it follows an internationally brokered peace plan, which has yet to halt the bloodshed, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
I get regular updates from change.org, but haven’t got this one yet, just now Christiane Amanpour mentioned it in the end of her show. Anyway, I signed it. Here’s the link if you want to sign it too: http://www.change.org/petitions/asma-al-assad-stop-the-bloodshed-in-syria# (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
crisisgroup: CNN | Analysis: U.N. mission does nothing to change endgame in Syria The beginning of the U.N. observer mission to Syria heralds a new phase in more than a year of upheaval across the country. Success, however unlikely, could open the door to some form of dialogue between the regime and its opponents. But such is the polarization in Syria that most analysts see the mission as the least worst option before violence sets the agenda again. It’s not as though any “cessation of violence” has yet taken hold. The ceasefire was meant to begin last Thursday, but in…
Syrian Violence Continues as U.N. Team Prepares Arrival United Nations cease-fire monitors were due to arrive in Syria on Sunday even as activists described violence erupting in Homs and an area near the Turkish border.
Syria: Security Council authorizes deployment of advance military observer team
Rwanda, Syria and the Responsibility to Protect Interesting piece on R2P. Very good too.
Christiane Amanpour: Bosnia’s lesson for Syrian slaughter Amanpour: Bosnia was where I learned objectivity does not mean drawing a false moral equivalence
