With Syria’s ceasefire holding, the next step in Kofi Annan’s peace plan is the deployment of a UN monitor team. This is a subject of major discussion at the UN Security Council, with the US and Russia advancing two alternative resolutions.
The US draft calls for the deployment of the initial wave of observers, but also included a number of demands on the Assad regime, and a broad condemnation of “widespread violations of human rights.”
Russia objected to the inclusion of the condemnations and demands, and has pushed an alternative “single issue” resolution that approves the observers. They insisted that the deployment was too urgent to be bogged down in other issues. The next round of talks is early Saturday.
Russia has also announced that they will be deploying warships along the Syrian coast on a “permanent basis,” citing a growing number of NATO warships in the region since the latest outbreak of violence.
"The US draft calls for the deployment of the initial wave of observers, but also included a number of demands on the Assad regime, and a broad condemnation of “widespread violations of human rights.”
Human rights…? You got to be kidding, US and its militarism regime is violating the basic rights of people in where US has been and is at war with, From Korean war to Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya and etc. Look if is a law then it must be for everyone not just Arab nationals or African nationals. People in US are asking: where is the Justice department or for that matter ICC to prosecute Bush for violating the international law, where is Erik Holden when he needs to prosecute those who violating the students rights at a peaceful demonstration by being pepper sprayed while seating, the US is violating the very basic rights of its own people by being a police state but they want to condemn or prosecute the Syrian government for violating the human rights? This is simply ridicules, people are killed by the police before they are asked the question HANDS UP or STOPP, they are shoot 30 − 50 times, and US wants to prosecute other governments for violating the human rights, this is more then ridicules is idiocy.
Russia must do everything in its power to halt any terror attacks from NATO, and discourage the overthrow of Assad. It is up to the Syrian people to make that decision, not the Zionist influenced US government, and certainly not NATO…the North American Terrorist Organization.