On
Syria, Draft GA
Resolution
Nods to
Opposition,
Chemical
Weapons
Probe
UNITED
NATIONS, April
9 -- Yesterday
Inner City
Press first
reported on
the
draft UN
General
Assembly
resolution on
Syria being
prepared by
Qatar, Saudi
Arabia and
others. Click
here for that.
Now
that others
are
re-reporting
that, Inner
City Press is
publishing
the
draft, here.
For
six pages --
21
perambulatory
paragraphs,
followed by 29
more -- the
draft
resolution is
nearly
entirely
directed at
the government
of
Bashar al
Assad.
It
recalls “all
meetings of
the group of
friends of the
Syrian people,
in particular
the fourth
Ministerial
Meeting held
in Marrakech
on 12
December 2012,
where the
participants
acknowledged
the National
Coalition for
Syrian
Revolutionary
and opposition
Forces as the
legitimate
representative
of the Syrian
people.”
The
draft goes on
to welcome
“the
establishment
of the
National
Coalition of
the Syrian
Revolution and
Opposition
Forces on 11
November 2012
in Doha, State
of Qatar,
notes the wide
international
acknowledgment
of the
Coalition as
the legitimate
representative
of
the Syrian
people.”
The
draft “demands
that the
Syrian
authorities
provide full
and
unfettered
access to the
Secretary-General’s
investigation
into all
alleged use of
chemical
weapons and
calls on all
parties to
cooperate
with the
investigation.”
Ban
Ki-moon's
negotiator
Angela Kane,
as Inner City
Press first reported,
has herself
been under
investigation,
for
irregularities
in the UN's
UMOJA program.
We'll have
more on this.
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site.
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