MMC
04-14-2012, 05:26 PM
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For the first time since the Syrian conflict began more than a year ago, the U.N. Security Council on Saturday united behind a legally binding resolution calling for violence to end immediately and peace talks to begin.
The resolution authorized the deployment of the first wave of U.N. military observers to monitor a fragile cease-fire between the Syrian government and opposition fighters.
The resolution calls for the deployment of an advance team of up to 30 unarmed military observers to initiate contacts with both sides and begin to report on whether there has been "a full cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties."
The council said it intends to immediately establish a larger U.N. supervision mission after consultations between Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Syrian government.
Deployment of a larger force will be "subject to a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties."
The resolution was sponsored by the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Colombia and Morocco, the Arab representative on the 15-member council.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/un-approves-first-observers-syria-155715697.html
So much for the US staying out of Syria. Rice accuses Assad of the violence, while others already have reported that the Syrian Rebels had not cease-fired. The Russians have warned about trying to take this to any further steps. Plus at the Friends of Syria Meeting Clinton Admitted that the US was helping the Syrian Rebels evade capture.
If Obama asked Putin for time. Do you think he did so with our Allies? Especially over Syria? Until he can get past this election?
The resolution authorized the deployment of the first wave of U.N. military observers to monitor a fragile cease-fire between the Syrian government and opposition fighters.
The resolution calls for the deployment of an advance team of up to 30 unarmed military observers to initiate contacts with both sides and begin to report on whether there has been "a full cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties."
The council said it intends to immediately establish a larger U.N. supervision mission after consultations between Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Syrian government.
Deployment of a larger force will be "subject to a sustained cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties."
The resolution was sponsored by the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Colombia and Morocco, the Arab representative on the 15-member council.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/un-approves-first-observers-syria-155715697.html
So much for the US staying out of Syria. Rice accuses Assad of the violence, while others already have reported that the Syrian Rebels had not cease-fired. The Russians have warned about trying to take this to any further steps. Plus at the Friends of Syria Meeting Clinton Admitted that the US was helping the Syrian Rebels evade capture.
If Obama asked Putin for time. Do you think he did so with our Allies? Especially over Syria? Until he can get past this election?