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Syria denounced for not adhereing to agreed peace plan
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] World powers denounced Syria on Tuesday for not adhering to an agreed peace plan, as the army pounded protest hubs and killed civilians on the day the regime was to have withdrawn its troops.Backing a call by envoy Kofi Annan  ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo..., the UN Security Council called on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Lord of the Baath... to make a "fundamental change of course" so that a complete ceasefire can take effect by 6:00 am on Thursday. Annan had earlier called on the council to register "deep concern" at Syria's failure to withdraw troops and guns from cities, saying Assad had failed to send the required "signal of peace." As even staunch ally Russia admitted Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... could do more to carry out a UN-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... deal, the opposition warned it would not allow the regime to use the peace deal as a "license to kill." Under Annan's plan, President Bashir al-Assad's military was to withdraw forces from urban areas on Tuesday, with a complete ceasefire to take effect on April 12. But on Tuesday the army kept up the shelling, with some 17 people, at least seven of them civilians, dying across the country. Annan, on a visit to Syrian refugees in border camps in Turkey, said the Syrian government told him it had withdrawn some troops, but he had also received reports that it had deployed into "areas which have not been previously targetted." In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said there was "no evidence so far that the Assad regime has any intention of adhering to any agreement it makes." The Syrians had used the withdrawal deadline "as a cover for intensified military efforts to crush Syria's opposition.... They have ruthlessly subjected whole communities to an inhumane campaign of shelling, forced expulsions and executions," he said in a statement. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-11 |
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