UNITED NATIONS, May 6 -- There was a fight between two members of the Security Council in closed door consultations about whether the crackdown in Syria is a threat to international peace and security, UN envoy on Council Resolution 1559 Terje Roed-Larsen told the Press on Friday morning.
Further reporting by Inner City Press identifies the two members as France and Russia. Specifically, multiple sources tell Inner City Press that Russian Permanent Representative Vitaly Churkin re-entered the Council and took issue with his French counterpart Gerard Araud, saying that the 1559 briefing is about Lebanon, not Syria.
Other Western members of the Council note that they too, not only France, raised Syria, as linked with the situation in Syria. But, they say, Churkin was in and out of the meeting, and heard only Araud, who is this month's Security Council president. The result of this statement by Roed-Larsen, were reports that the Western drive for a resolution on Syria was raised and shot down on Friday. In fact, Western sources say, it has yet to be formally raised. The backdrop is how far the Western countries have gone with the mandate gave them in Libya, with absentions from Russia and China. Now other countries, including other abstainers but even some members which voted in favor of Resolution 1973 on Libya, are dubious about even beginning a similar process on Syria.
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It will be a very dangerous precedent to take UNSC action on a country experiencing armed insurrection. The whole saga in Syria showed how the UN is simply a tool of world powers, much like the former League of Nations. How dare they even try to come up with a resolution against Syria when the media has been clearly and deliberately exaggerating events, ignoring others, and completely making up stories?
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