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UN, Revised
Syria Draft
Requires Assad
Consultations
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 13 --
The revised
Syria draft
resolution
produced late
April 13, and
obtained by
Inner City
Press, does
NOT make
"demands" on
Syria's Assad
government.
Rather, in
Paragraphs 2,
4, 6, 7 and 8
it "calls up"
the
government,
and where
applicable
"all parties,"
to perform
certain acts.
It
"decides to
authorize an
advance team
of up to 30
unarmed
military
observers...
to begin to
report on the
implementation
of a full
cessation of
armed
violence."
The
full mission,
it
acknowledges,
would be
"subject to a
sustained
cessation of
armed violence
in all its
forms by all
parties" and
only "after
consultations
between the
Secretary-General
and the Syrian
government."
This
is what has
been
circulated
back to
Security
Council
members'
capitals, in
the run up to
a Saturday 11
am meeting.
Can the
resolution be
adopted in
this form?
Watch this
site.
Click here for
Sept
23, '11
BloggingHead.tv
about UN
General
Assembly
Click
for Mar
1, '11
BloggingHeads.tv
re Libya, Sri
Lanka, UN
Corruption
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Lord's Resistance Army. Click here
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AlertNet piece about the Somali
National Reconciliation Congress, and the UN's
$200,000 contribution from an undefined trust
fund. Video
Analysis here
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