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Arabs seek UN help to implement Syria plan
One group of fools seeking help from another...
DAMASCUS: An Arab League team is taking the 10-month-old crisis in Syria to the UN Security Council, as security forces launched an assault on a protest hub near the Syrian capital on Thursday.

At the Cairo-based Arab League, the organization’s chief Nabil Elaraby said he and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani were to head to New York on Saturday to seek support for an Arab plan on Syria. They are to “hold a meeting with the UN Security Council on Monday to seek ratification of the Arab League decision on Syria,” for President Bashar Assad to hand power to his deputy, Elaraby said.
Because his deputy will be a paragon of sweet reason...
Arab League ministers last week urged Assad to delegate powers to his vice president and clear the way for a national unity government within two months, a plan which Damascus has ruled out as interference in its internal affairs.

Russia said on Thursday it would continue to promote its own draft resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council, staking out a tough position ahead of talks on a Western-Arab draft. Foreign Ministry spokesman ruled out neither a compromise on the rival Security Council resolution nor a veto from Russia.
Posted by: Steve White 2012-01-27
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