Syria
Resolution for
UNGA
Undergoes
Final Draft,
Qatar Ready
to Intro, Here
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, May 7
-- The
proposed Syria
resolution for
the General
Assembly,
after four
previous
drafts by
Qatar, has
undergone its
"final"
revision.
Inner
City Press has
obtained a
copy and
exclusively
puts it online
here. As
of this
writing the
plan is to
introduce it
to the full UN
membership on
Wednesday, May
8 in the
afternoon.
It's very
rococo: 22
perambular
paragraphs,
and 33
operative
paragraphs (to
the degree
that anything
in such a
non-binding GA
resolution can
be considered
"operative.")
The
draft got
modified,
after as Inner
City Press showed
countries like
India, South
Africa,
Malaysia,
Switzerland,
Brazil
and other
Latin
American
countries
expressed
concerns.
"Support"
of the
Arab League,
which gave
Syria's seat
to the
opposition,
became merely
welcoming, and
even that only
"in this
regard" -
meaning,
for political
transition.
While
envoy Lakhdar
Brahimi talks
of quitting
and Human
Rights Council-appointed
Carla
Del Ponte
speaks of
strong
suspicions
that sarin gas
was used not
by the
government but
the opposition,
what explains
the
timing?
On
Tuesday US
Secretary of
State John
Kerry
announced a
plan with
Russia
in which
Bashar al
Assad would
not
necessarily
have to leave.
This is
NOT what
Qatar, Saudi
Arabia and
others have in
mind. So let's
go to
a vote!
But four
Peacekeepers
have been
taken by the
Yarmouk
Martyrs
Brigade, no
matter how
little the
UN's Herve
Ladsous wants
to say
about it; the
Non Aligned
Movement on
May 7 called
on the
Security
Council to act
on Israel's
bombing of
Syria.
So
what
will it
accomplished?
Watch this
site.
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