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February 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s representative at the UN, told the gathering in New
York that his country had been unable to back the General Assembly motion,
which was co-sponsored by 72 nations, because it did not require the
opposition in Syria to cease violence.
“Under these circumstances, the Russian Federation had no other option but to
vote against,” he said.
China said it could not back the resolution because it effectively called for
the departure of President Bashar al-Assad, which Beijing believes amounts
to regime change.
Ahead of the vote, Bashar Ja’afari, Syria’s representative to the UN, claimed
the resolution would only worsen the problem and lead to “more chaos and
more crisis.”
There was disappointment among Western powers including Britain earlier this
month when Russia and China vetoed an earlier UN Security Council resolution
backing an Arab League proposal which would have required Assad to hand over
power to his deputy.
But speaking ahead of yesterday’s Assembly vote, Alain Juppe, the French
foreign minister, held out hope that Russia would overcome its earlier
objection to the Arab League plan.
Following talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Mr Juppe said: “We
can possibly reach a compromise on a short-term objective which is to end
the massacres.
“We must do everything so that the violence ends and that a lot of
humanitarian aid is given to the Syrian people.
“We are ready to work in New York on a draft resolution inspired by the Arab
League to stop the violence and provide humanitarian aid.”
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, stressed the urgency of the crisis,
warning that crimes against humanity were taking place in Syria while
diplomats continued to “debate”.
Calling on the Assad regime to stop the slaughter, he said: “We see
neighbourhoods shelled indiscriminately, hospitals used as torture centres,
children as young as 10 years old killed and abused. We see almost certainly
crimes against humanity.”
“Lack of agreement in the Security Council does not give the government
licence to continue its assault on its own people. The longer we debate the
more people will die.”
Mr Ban said it was thought that as many as 25,000 people had fled Syria since
the brutal crackdown on protests which began as peaceful last year, with an
estimated 70,000 displaced within the country.
Meanwhile, Syrian forces continued to attack the rebel towns of Hama and Homs,
extending their onslaught to Dera’a, on the Jordanian border.
In the capital of Damascus, security forces arrested a number of prominent
critics, including blogger Razan Ghazzawi and rights activist Mazen Darwish.
Syria claimed that President Assad’s offer this week to hold a referendum on a
new constitution followed by multi-party elections within 90 days showed
that “interference” from the international community was not needed, in a
pledge dismissed by the White House as “laughable”.
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