New
Syria Draft GA
Resolution
Calls
for IDP Plan
Like Safe
Zone, Seat
Switch?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
Follow Up
UNITED
NATIONS, April
11 -- The
draft General
Assembly
resolution on
which
Inner City
Press first
reported on
April 8,
and put
online April 9,
has been
revised again.
Click
here.
Among
other things,
the draft now
contains a
paragraph on
internally
displaced
people in
Syria, asking
for a report
from the UN's
special
rapporteur on
the topic in
thirty days.
It
"Requests
the
Special
Rapporteur on
the human
rights of
internally
displaced
persons, in
cooperation
with the
Secretariat
and UNHCR, to
report to
the General
Assembly,
within 30
days, on the
very dire
situation of
internally
displaced
persons in the
Syrian Arab
Republic in
terms of
safety, and
their basic
rights and
livelihood,
and provide
recommendations
with a view to
meeting
assistance and
protection
needs and
strengthening
the
effectiveness
of the
international
response to
displacement.”
This
was explained
to Inner City
Press the
hoped-for
recommendation
is "safe
zones."
More
sources
have told
Inner City
Press that a
main goal of
the draft
resolution is
to “lay the
groundwork”
for giving
Syria's UN
seat
to the
opposition.
We'll have
more on this.
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site.
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