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Syria Fears UN Will Impose Sanctions
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said yesterday he feared the United Nations would âunfairlyâ punish his country as the world body prepares to issue a resolution threatening sanctions against Damascus. âSome quarters within the Security Council are trying to turn it into a tribunal whereby Chapter VII (of the UN charter) would be unfairly applied against Syria,â Muallem told reporters after arriving in Qatar from Saudi Arabia.He described as âdangerousâ a resolution which the Security Council is expected to pass today threatening sanctions against Syria to force it to cooperate with a UN probe which has already implicated Damascus in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Posted by: Fred 2005-10-31 |
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