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Annan to Security Council: Syria Violence Still 'Unacceptable'
[An Nahar] Syria is still seeing "unacceptable" levels of violence, international 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...told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, after dozens of people were killed across the country despite a ceasefire. "The situation in Syria continues to be unacceptable," Annan told a closed-door meeting. He spoke after a car boom rocked central Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... , wounding three people, while nearly 60 people were killed across the country a day earlier ahead of the deployment of 300 U.N. peace observers. Earlier on Tuesday, Annan's front man said the Syrian government has not yet removed heavy weapons used to quash anti-regime protests as agreed in a U.N. ceasefire. Spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said the truce was "extremely fragile" and urged Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's government to fully implement its end of the deal. "This means withdrawal of all heavy armory from population centers," he told U.N. broadcaster UNTV. "They are claiming that this has happened. Satellite imagery however and credible reports show that this has not fully happened, so this is unacceptable." He said Annan, the U.N. and 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... envoy for the crisis, planned to denounce the regime's failure to comply with the ceasefire in an address to a closed session of the U.N. Security Council later Tuesday. He also said U.N. observers on the ground had entered areas like Homs and Hama and found that when they are there "the guns are silent". But when they leave, he said, "credible reports" indicate that fire resumes. Fawzi's remarks came a day after nearly 60 people were reported killed across Syria despite the cease-fire and the upcoming deployment of 300 U.N. peace monitors. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-25 |
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