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    European ministers seek UN resolution on Syria

    By DAVID STRINGER and JAMEY KEATEN | Associated Press – Mon, Jan 30, 2012

    LONDON (AP) — British and French foreign ministers are heading to New York on Monday to bolster Arab League efforts to press for a United Nations resolution aimed at halting Syria's violent crackdown on anti-regime protests.

    Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe both confirmed they would attend U.N. talks scheduled for Tuesday.

    Officials hope that Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim and Arab League officials, who will also attend, can help persuade Russia and China to back away from their opposition to a U.N. Security Council resolution.

    Russia has insisted that it won't support any resolution which could enable foreign military intervention in Syria.

    On Monday, it said Syria's government has agreed to come to Moscow for talks with the country's opposition representatives in. It was not immediately clear if Syria's opposition representatives would agree to such talks, but in the past they have said that an end to violence was their precondition for a meeting.

    The French Foreign Ministry said Juppe would travel to New York "to convince the Security Council to assume its responsibilities in the face of the worsening of crimes against humanity by the Syrian regime."

    In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron's office urged Moscow to reconsider its stance. "Russia can no longer explain blocking the U.N. and providing cover for the regime's brutal repression," a spokeswoman for Cameron said, on customary condition of anonymity in line with policy.

    The U.N. estimates about 5,400 people have been killed in 10 months of violence.

    Talks on Tuesday are scheduled to focus on a draft resolution based on an Arab League peace plan. That plan calls for a two-month transition to a unity government in Syria.

    A British official, who requested anonymity to discuss negotiations on a resolution, said the U.N. would seek to approve a resolution calling for progress on halting the crisis.

    The Security Council will threaten possible sanctions in no progress is made within two weeks, the official said.

    However, the text would stress there are no plans for any military intervention in Syria — though the option would not be explicitly, or permanently, ruled out, the official said.

    Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby said Sunday in Egypt that contacts were under way with China and Russia in the hope of overcoming their opposition to a resolution.

    On Saturday, the Arab League halted the work of its observer mission in Syria because of the escalating violence there.

    _____

    Keaten reported from Paris.

     

    24 comments

    • Howard L
      Howard L  •  Clermont, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Why bother? Name a single UN resolution that accomplished anything.
      • Ron
        Ron 3 mths ago
        It is impossible to make any resolution stick when the US has Veto power, and they only listen to Israel.
    • kmat
      kmat  •  Sunbury, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      why is it up to russia or anyone else for that matter to fix this? why aren't the arab nations policing themselves? kill each other all you want then....
      • kristof
        kristof 3 mths ago
        it's not up to Russia,but if they keep selling weapons to a regime that keeps killing it's own people then don't expect the world to like them either.

        I con't understand it either, the regime will fall.The resistance has reached critical mass and every community Assad touches with violence will join and return the favor.Russia should start making friends with who comes next.
    • США
      США  •  3 mths ago
      The European minister should be concern with fixing their own problems and stop screwing the whole world.
    • Irritated
      Irritated  •  Montreal, Canada  •  3 mths ago
      The french are stubborn bullies. Their resolution will not pass and this is another blow to Sarkozy election that Juppe is trying to boost by a international success at the UN.
    • kmat
      kmat  •  Sunbury, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      the UN to the world of dictatorship is like Chamberlin was to Hitler....
      • veritas
        veritas 3 mths ago
        That's now clear. Ban, from our S.Korean protectorate, plays deaf, dumb, and blind while US/NATO commit war crimes in Libya. And at the IAEA, Amano, from Japan, another US protectorate, writes a report furnished him by western intelligence loaded with innuendoes and suspicions that Iran is reseaching nuclear weapons. Our Establishment mass press played that to the hilt while ignoring this crucial statement in the report: THE IAEA COULD FIND NO EVIDENCE THAT IRAN IS DIVERTING ENRICHED URANIUM TO A WEAPONS PROGRAM!
    • Royal1
      Royal1  •  3 mths ago
      The UN is to incompetent to judge another countries problems. You do not bring your children to a protest and expect them not to get hurt, both sides need to have thier heads examined.
    • Richard
      Richard  •  3 mths ago
      What they want is a military action there with the USA footing the bill.
    • Edo
      Edo  •  Zurich, Switzerland  •  3 mths ago
      The French are not in a hurry to send their planes to bomb Syria. They were fast to attack Lybia and even faster to meet Lybia's new leaders in order to discuss oil trade. But Syria isn't interesting, no oil nor gas to justify the effort. And Syrian refugees are not going into Europe, at least not yet.
    • Louis
      Louis  •  Singapore, Singapore  •  3 mths ago
      Same country jesters going to entertain the king. When will this folly stop? Ban will very likely appear again soon in a clown uniform that fits him perfectly.
    • Tony S
      Tony S  •  3 mths ago
      Isn't the UN kind of a New World Order organization ?? I believe a certain Kenyan Dictator gets his marching orders from these boys, check me if I'm wrong.
      • Edo
        Edo 3 mths ago
        are you sure he is Kenyan ? I thought his birth certificate said "Filipino"
    • Bill White
      Bill White  •  Saginaw, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      The Western Imperialist have enough problems of their own to deal with !!
    • veritas
      veritas  •  3 mths ago
      Two newly established war criminals who bombed civilians in citie in Libya to clear the way for their puppet rebels, now expect us to believe they give a #$%$ about Syrian civilians. Then why are their special forces training mercenaries in Turkey to cause trouble in Syria. This according to DEBkaFILE, an Israeli intelligence website! As the US,the most hated in the world, it's nice to have devoted lapdogs carry the imperialist ball once in a while, else the whole world would see clearly why the Ayatollags call us the Great Satan.
    • Brian F
      Brian F  •  3 mths ago
      Thats 540 people every 30 days, and 18 people a day that are estimated to be killed. The real question is why Russia is allowing this unhumanitarian action to occur.
      • Ugottabkdnme
        Ugottabkdnme 3 mths ago
        They do it just to #$%$ off the rest of the world.
      • The Day
        The Day 3 mths ago
        Brian F - you're a dull Goat
    • Samhan
      Samhan  •  3 mths ago
      Actually the best message to deliver to the Iranian regime as the standoff mounts over it's defying nuclear program, is to sever it's tentacle in the levant and do away with the only allied regime to Tehran in the region, that the Assad's regime represents, making a quick work of Assad regime will isolate the Iranians, politically , diplomatically, and to some extent militarily since their other tentacle in the region is Hezzbollah is totally dependent on the Syrian regime link for it's lifelines in Iran... Imagine severing all those links and tentacle by a single action of removing Assad regime.... Any far sighted leadership should see the urgency in removing Assad and committing the resources to do it now.
    • Ron
      Ron  •  West Palm Beach, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Get the CIA and MI-6, and the oil men out of Syria and there will be peace there.
    • США
      США  •  3 mths ago
      Is there any country that follow the Mohammad demonic cult that have any democracy or at pace within themselves?
    • .
      .  •  3 mths ago
      Why isn't the UN imposing sanctions on the Zionist regime?

      It is obvious that the West uses the UN as a political tool to pressure the non-puppet governments they don't like.
    • vartanb
      vartanb  •  , India  •  3 mths ago
      Again resolution from --divided nations-- against syria.
      Please readers think wisely, hundreds of u.n. Resolution passed
      against israel and nothing resulted, but one resolution against
      syria will result sanction, why such ---double standard--- why?
      Till when countries to be of --double standard-- and that is why
      i always writing - divided nations and not united nations.

      bye
    • The Day
      The Day  •  3 mths ago
      France quickly attached Libya, killed Gaddafi so that the Money he took for his election campaign from Saif Gaddafi will not be returned. The earlier West/USA start to recount Russia opinion the better, Russian has SAID many time back off from Syria. No any resolution will pass on Syria, Until West/USA and Arab leagues of the Gulf Puppets brought Bahrain situation to U.N, in which all of them are keeping silence as if nothing is going on in Bahrain
    • James L
      James L  •  Port St. Lucie, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Oh Teah it will make a difference,,,,,the ministeria are useless failures in global conflicts. Name one success ! Kosavo? what was the death count? Dafur the death count,,,rowanda the death count,,,,stop wasting resources move that club house of have nots to Cairo.
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