Syria resolution expected within a week
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Gérard Araud
The UN Security Council is set to produce a resolution on Syria by the end of next week.
Civil unrest has been continuing in Syria over the last ten months. The UN estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed.
Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, has put forward a draft resolution but it has been rejected by the other four permanent members.
France’s UN ambassador Gérard Araud says the Russians have failed to update the text:
“We had a Russian text on the table. A clear majority of the Council has expressed itself to amend deeply this text, and the Russians have not circulated a new text for three weeks. In the same time, the Arab League has taken new decisions, so we have decided to reflect the situation in the text, which is a text that is only supporting the initiative of the Arab League in all its aspects which means, of course, the four first demands you know about – the observers, but also about the release of political prisoners, the access of media and with role of the armed forces from the centres of the cities, but also the political proposals of the Arab League.” Duration: 44″
