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Ban called the conflict in Syria the most serious and gravest concern of the international community. The secretary-general said his priority is to fully deploy a mission of 300 unarmed U.N. monitors for a ceasefire that so far has failed to end the bloodshed. The cessation of violence must stop by all the parties - government, the military forces or opposition forces. This should be stopped. Then political dialog must begin in an inclusive way for a political resolution reflecting the genuine aspirations of the Syrian people," he said.
There are about 60 U.N. monitors in Syria. Ban said about 300 personnel will be deployed by the end of this month. He added that the United Nations is mobilizing humanitarian efforts to help those displaced by the fighting. At least 1 million in Syria have been displaced and affected. Tens of thousands of people have fled to neighboring countries," he said. The U.N. Secretary-General said the League of Arab States is playing a crucial role and that it, along with the U.N. Security Council, is united in trying to deploy a monitoring mission to Syria.
Ban attended the forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to report on the U.N.s peace building efforts. He said $100 million were spent last year to help keep war torn societies from sliding back into conflict. Our peacekeeping missions are often important early peace builders, as we saw in Sierra Leone, still we see in Liberia and hope to see in Southern Sudan, where our peacekeeping mission probably has the most ambitious peace building mandate ever adopted by the Security Council," he said. Ban said including women in peace processes and post-conflict planning is crucial to achieve positive results.
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More talk - but no action...
UN Secretary-General: Syrian Bloodshed Unacceptable and Intolerable
May 07, 2012 > U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that the 14-months of violence in Syria that has claimed more than 9,000 lives is an unacceptable and intolerable situation. Mr. Ban made the remarks during an appearance in Washington.
Ban called the conflict in Syria the most serious and gravest concern of the international community. The secretary-general said his priority is to fully deploy a mission of 300 unarmed U.N. monitors for a ceasefire that so far has failed to end the bloodshed. The cessation of violence must stop by all the parties - government, the military forces or opposition forces. This should be stopped. Then political dialog must begin in an inclusive way for a political resolution reflecting the genuine aspirations of the Syrian people," he said.
There are about 60 U.N. monitors in Syria. Ban said about 300 personnel will be deployed by the end of this month. He added that the United Nations is mobilizing humanitarian efforts to help those displaced by the fighting. At least 1 million in Syria have been displaced and affected. Tens of thousands of people have fled to neighboring countries," he said. The U.N. Secretary-General said the League of Arab States is playing a crucial role and that it, along with the U.N. Security Council, is united in trying to deploy a monitoring mission to Syria.
Ban attended the forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to report on the U.N.s peace building efforts. He said $100 million were spent last year to help keep war torn societies from sliding back into conflict. Our peacekeeping missions are often important early peace builders, as we saw in Sierra Leone, still we see in Liberia and hope to see in Southern Sudan, where our peacekeeping mission probably has the most ambitious peace building mandate ever adopted by the Security Council," he said. Ban said including women in peace processes and post-conflict planning is crucial to achieve positive results.
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Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces...
Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces...
New video of terror group's chief Ayman al-Zawahri urging the ouster of Syria's 'cancerous regime' follows report of al-Qaida links to recent series of bombings in the country.
Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
So Israel and the US are calling for the same things in Syria as Alqaeda,and the "religion of peace" activists..
Thus the contradiction that was desperately kept hidden for the past decade returns to the surface: the mercenaries, formerly paid by Osama Bin Laden, have never stopped working in the service of US strategic interests since the first war in Afghanistan, including the period of the September 11 attacks. Yet they are portrayed ​​by Western leaders as implacable enemies.
U.S. officials tell NBC Israel runs a terrorist organization known to conduct bombings, unconventional warfare, and targeted assassinations throughout the Middle East.
Israel Is Working With Designated Terror Group (The Peoples Mujahideen) To Kill In Iran..
U.S. Officials: Israel Terrorists Behind Iran Bombings - YouTube
Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israels secret service,
The group, the Peoples Mujahedin of Iran, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the United States, accused of killing American servicemen and contractors in the 1970s and supporting the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
The group is listed as a terrorist organization by several nations.
The United States, Canada, Iraq and Iran have designated the PMOI a terrorist organization.[13][14] On January 26, 2009, following what the group called a seven-year-long legal and political battle, the Council of the European Union removed the PMOI from the EU list of organisations it designates as terrorist.[15][16][17][18]
Interesting how the EU removed the group from their terrorist list. Might that have anything to do with them knowing the group is an Israeli front?
By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.
"The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event."
Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces...
New video of terror group's chief Ayman al-Zawahri urging the ouster of Syria's 'cancerous regime' follows report of al-Qaida links to recent series of bombings in the country.
Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
So Israel and the US are calling for the same things in Syria as Alqaeda,and the "religion of peace" activists..
Thus the contradiction that was desperately kept hidden for the past decade returns to the surface: the mercenaries, formerly paid by Osama Bin Laden, have never stopped working in the service of US strategic interests since the first war in Afghanistan, including the period of the September 11 attacks. Yet they are portrayed ​​by Western leaders as implacable enemies.
U.S. officials tell NBC Israel runs a terrorist organization known to conduct bombings, unconventional warfare, and targeted assassinations throughout the Middle East.
Israel Is Working With Designated Terror Group (The Peoples Mujahideen) To Kill In Iran..
U.S. Officials: Israel Terrorists Behind Iran Bombings - YouTube
Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israels secret service,
The group, the Peoples Mujahedin of Iran, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the United States, accused of killing American servicemen and contractors in the 1970s and supporting the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
The group is listed as a terrorist organization by several nations.
The United States, Canada, Iraq and Iran have designated the PMOI a terrorist organization.[13][14] On January 26, 2009, following what the group called a seven-year-long legal and political battle, the Council of the European Union removed the PMOI from the EU list of organisations it designates as terrorist.[15][16][17][18]
Interesting how the EU removed the group from their terrorist list. Might that have anything to do with them knowing the group is an Israeli front?
By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.
"The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event."
You have internet access in the insane asylum? You are able to type in a straightjacket?
Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces...
New video of terror group's chief Ayman al-Zawahri urging the ouster of Syria's 'cancerous regime' follows report of al-Qaida links to recent series of bombings in the country.
Al-Qaida calls on Muslim world to support Assad opposition forces - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
So Israel and the US are calling for the same things in Syria as Alqaeda,and the "religion of peace" activists..
Thus the contradiction that was desperately kept hidden for the past decade returns to the surface: the mercenaries, formerly paid by Osama Bin Laden, have never stopped working in the service of US strategic interests since the first war in Afghanistan, including the period of the September 11 attacks. Yet they are portrayed ​​by Western leaders as implacable enemies.
U.S. officials tell NBC Israel runs a terrorist organization known to conduct bombings, unconventional warfare, and targeted assassinations throughout the Middle East.
Israel Is Working With Designated Terror Group (The Peoples Mujahideen) To Kill In Iran..
U.S. Officials: Israel Terrorists Behind Iran Bombings - YouTube
Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israels secret service,
The group, the Peoples Mujahedin of Iran, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the United States, accused of killing American servicemen and contractors in the 1970s and supporting the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
The group is listed as a terrorist organization by several nations.
The United States, Canada, Iraq and Iran have designated the PMOI a terrorist organization.[13][14] On January 26, 2009, following what the group called a seven-year-long legal and political battle, the Council of the European Union removed the PMOI from the EU list of organisations it designates as terrorist.[15][16][17][18]
Interesting how the EU removed the group from their terrorist list. Might that have anything to do with them knowing the group is an Israeli front?
By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.
"The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event."
You have internet access in the insane asylum? You are able to type in a straightjacket?
If I am insane in an insane asylum, then you should hold the advantage and be able to discredit what I posted so much easier.
UN observers have counted at least 90 bodies, including 32 children, after a Syrian government attack on a town. UN mission head Maj-Gen Robert Mood told the BBC the killing in Houla was "indiscriminate and unforgivable". UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said he would seek a strong international response to the "appalling crime" - France and the Arab League have also condemned the massacre. Syria's government has blamed the deaths on "armed terrorist gangs". This is one of the bloodiest attacks in one area since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.
Activists say some of the victims died by shelling, while others were summarily executed, or butchered by the regime militia known as the "shabiha". France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and the Arab League also condemned Friday's assault. Mr Fabius said he was making immediate arrangements for a Paris meeting of the Friends of Syria group, which includes Western and Arab nations, but not Russia or China, who have blocked previous attempts to introduce UN sanctions. Fighting in Syria has continued despite the deployment of some 250 UN observers monitoring a cease-fire brokered by UN envoy Kofi Annan - a ceasefire which the BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon says is now "pretty fictional". The UN says at least 10,000 have been killed since the protests began.
UN 'refused to come'
Mr Hague said he would be calling for an urgent session of the UN Security Council in the coming days. Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi called the assault a "horrific crime" and urged the Security Council to "stop the escalation of killing and violence by armed gangs and government military forces," the Reuters news agency reports. The opposition Free Syrian Army says it can no longer commit to the ceasefire unless the Security Council can ensure that civilians are protected, the AFP news agency reports. Horrific video footage has emerged from Houla of dozens of dead children, covered in blood, their arms and legs strewn over one another. It is unverified, but our correspondent says such images would be difficult to fake. International media cannot report freely in Syria and it is impossible to verify reports of violence.
A team of UN observers visited the town on Saturday and afterwards Maj-Gen Mood said they could confirm "the use of small arms, machine gun, artillery and tanks." But he did not say who was behind the killings. "Whoever started, whoever responded, and whoever carried out this deplorable act of violence should be held responsible." Our correspondent says local people are angry that the observers failed to intervene to stop the killing. Abu Emad, speaking from Houla, said their appeals to the monitors failed to produce action. "We told them at night, we called seven of them. We told them the massacre is being committed right now at Houla by the mercenaries of this regime and they just refused to come and stop the massacre."
More BBC News - Syria crisis: Houla child massacre confirmed by UN
Western nations are pressing for a response to the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, with the US calling for an end to what it called President Bashar al-Assad's "rule by murder". UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council this week. The UN has confirmed the deaths of at least 90 people in Houla, including 32 children under the age of 10. The Syrian government blamed the deaths on "armed terrorist gangs". Houla, in the central province of Homs, came under sustained bombardment by the Syrian army after demonstrations on Friday. Activists say some of the victims died by shelling, while others were summarily executed by the regime militia known as the "shabiha".
'Flagrant violation'
The killings have sparked a chorus of international condemnation. The EU, Arab League, France, Britain and Germany all expressed shock over the incident and called for an intensification of pressure on the Assad government, while the UN demanded that Syria stop using heavy weapons in populated areas. Britain was consulting with its allies on a "strong international response" and was calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council in the coming days, Mr Hague said. "Our urgent priority is to establish a full account of this appalling crime and to move swiftly to ensure that those responsible are identified and held to account," he said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said the attack - one of the bloodiest episodes since the uprising began - was a "flagrant violation of international law".
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it an "appalling" massacre, saying President Bashar al-Assad's "rule by murder and fear must come to an end". In a statement on Saturday, Mrs Clinton called the deaths an "atrocity" and said Washington would increase pressure on "Assad and his cronies", who she said must give up power. "Those who perpetrated this atrocity must be identified and held to account," she added. France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he was making immediate arrangements for a Paris meeting of the Friends of Syria group, which includes Western and Arab nations, but not Russia or China, who have blocked previous attempts to introduce UN sanctions. The EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also condemned the incident.
Mr Ban and Mr Annan said the crime involved "indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force" and violated commitments by Syria's government. In April, Damascus pledged to implement a six-point plan brokered by Mr Annan, including a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from urban areas. Meanwhile, the opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) said it could no longer commit to the ceasefire unless the Security Council could ensure that civilians are protected. In a statement, the FSA said that if urgent steps were not taken, then Mr Annan's plan was "going to hell", AFP reports. It said killings in Syria were taking place "under the eyes of the UN observers," and called on states to "announce the failure of the Annan plan."
'Deplorable'