Syria
Complains to
UNSC on Turkey
Cross Border
Firing, Speaks
on Plane
Grounding
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 11 --
Syria through
its Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari on
Thursday
morning filed
a complaint
with the UN
Security
Council about
Turkey's cross
border firing.
Ja'afari told
Inner City
Press the
firing is
hostile and
provocative,
and a joint
body with
Turkey should
be set up to
investigate
and stop the
escalation.
Inner
City Press
asked about
the airliner
grounded in
Turkey.
Ja'afari said
Turkish jets
forced it to
the ground,
despite the
pilot
indicating he
would obey and
cooperate. The
passengers
were kept
without water
for
eight hours,
Ja'afari
added.
Would
a complaint be
filed with the
International
Civil Aviation
Organization?
They don't
care, Ja'afari
said, heading
up from the
basement where
the Security
Council meets
for now.
Upstairs the
"post
Qatar" General
Assembly was
meeting about
its own
revitalization.
There, Inner
City Press was
told of a
bilateral
inquiry by
Russia with
Turkey about
the grounding.
One waits to
hear from
Turkish
Permanent
Representative
Apakan.
Inner
City Press
asked Security
Council
president Gert
Rosenthal
earlier
this week if
there had been
any follow up
on last week's
Presidential
Statement
calling on
restraint by
both Syria and
Turkey.
Nothing
since Friday
[October 5],
Rosenthal
replied. Well,
now there is a
new
filing. Watch
this site.
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