Posted on 06/07/2012 7:51:52 PM PDT by bd476
UNITED NATIONS — With Syria lurching closer to sectarian warfare, world leaders on Thursday sought to apply new pressure on a government that they said showed no sign of honoring cease-fire agreements or halting the slaughter of noncombatants, but they remained divided on how to revive a peace process that U.N. officials conceded was in ruins.
As new details emerged of the latest massacre of civilians, U.N. officials spoke for the first time of unspecified “consequences” for the Syrian government. Yet the refusal by Russia and China to embrace new economic sanctions meant that the world body was left without a clear path forward.
“Pressure — substantial pressure — is what this crisis demands,” U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan said during a closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council, according to a diplomat who attended the session. “We will soon reach a day when it will be impossible to keep the crisis from spiraling out of control.”
The warnings came less than 24 hours after news broke of the second mass killing of Sunni civilians in as many weeks. Up to 78 people, most of them women and children, reportedly were slaughtered in Qubair, a small village in Hama province, by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian troops blocked U.N. monitors from entering the village, and some observers came under small-arms fire as they tried to approach the town, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. He provided no details on who had fired at the monitors or whether there were any injuries. U.N. monitors...End 300 word excerpt from 1,054 word Washington Post article.
Article continues After new Syria massacre, U.N. urges ‘substantial pressure’ on Assad
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That is basically what the UN had to say today at the special “informal” meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
With the exception of what I heard from Israel and Germany, the general response was that Syria should follow “exactly” the six steps proposed by Kofi Annan. The Arab League group said they want no foreign intervention.
The representative of Assad claimed the massacres were done by “terrorists” armed by outsiders.
LOL!
The Eunuch Nations! LOL
Anybody correct me if I’m wrong, but IIRC it (as in “Arab Spring”) all started with Libya, and then like dominoes...........
Who was behind the Libyan venture?
This Organization is only successful at fleecing caring people of their money.
Forever mired in islam (small I used to denote disrespect).
“John McCain: It’s time to arm Syria’s opposition”....is the title of one of your links.
I guess that neither McCain or Lindsey Graham have heard of the concept of “false flag operations”. Don’t bet the farm (or our national treasure) on these recent massacres of civilians actually being done or sponsored by the Syrian government.
bd476 can’t get enough BS about this false flag operation in Syria! We must stay the hell out of these civil wars. McCain, NATO, USDoD, UN, etc are pushing for the Muslim Brotherhood aka AQ to take another ME country! What happened to the Christians in Iraq, Afgh, Egypt etc.
The Assad dynasty is and has been a mass-murdering gang, and there are no “false flag operations” going on there.
:.......there are no “false flag operations” going on there.”
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Really? And you know this how?
“......there are no “false flag operations” going on there.”
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Do some research and don’t be “suckered” by the mainstream media.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2893410/posts
And you should read the Daniel Greenfield column I linked in the thread House Atreides linked. Post 8.
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