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On
Syria,
Qatar's 4th
UNGA Draft
Drops Support
for Arab
League,
Welcomes
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, April
30, updated
with Syria NV
-- Amid the
chess game
about Syria
and chemical
weapons, the
proposed UN
General
Assembly
resolution
drafted by
Qatar
and Saudi
Arabia
continues to
be amended.
There
is now a
fourth
revision, Rev.
4, which Inner
City Press has
obtained
and is exclusively
publishing
here.
Update:
and here
is Syria's
"Note
Verbale,"
critiquing
Operative
Paragraph 25,
etc.
The
changes
include, in
Operative
Paragraph 26,
switching
"support"
for the
efforts of the
Arab League to
merely
"welcoming"
them -- this
after the Arab
League gave
the Syria seat
to the
opposition,
over the
reservations
of Algeria and
Iraq and the
routine
"dis-association"
of Lebanon.
Now the Arab
League is only
supported "in
this regard"
-- that of the
political
resolution of
the situation
in Syria.
There's a
change to
paragraph 9
bis, which
"underscores
further
the importance
that the
Syrian people,
on the basis
of broad,
inclusive and
credible
consultations,
should
determine,
within the
framework
provided by
international
law and based
up on the
complementarity
principle, the
domestic
process and
mechanisms to
achieve
reconciliation,
truth and
accountability
for gross
violations, as
well as
reparations
and effective
remedies for
the
victims."
Changes
were
demanded even
in the April
26 meeting
between Qatar
and the
Western
European and
Other Group of
states, WEOG
sources tell
Inner
City Press.
This
follows letters
with
objections
from, among
others,
Malaysia,
India,
South Africa,
Brazil and
other Latin
American
countries,
also exclusively
published by
Inner City
Press.
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