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| Western Nations, Kuwait Call for Special U.N. Rights Session on Syria |
| 2011-08-18 |
| [An Nahar] European countries, the United States and Kuwait will ask the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ' top human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... body to hold a special session on the human rights situation in Syria, diplomats told Agence La Belle France Presse Wednesday. "We will submit the request (Wednesday) evening to convene a special session of the Human Rights Council on Monday," according to one European diplomat who wished to remain anonymous. Another diplomat told AFP that more than 20 countries had signed the request, including European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries, the United States and Kuwait, in excess of the third of the Council's 47 members needed to convene a special session. Both officials said the special session would aim at condemning Syria's actions and call for an investigation into the regime's deadly crackdown on demonstrators, as was the case during a previous special session held on April 29. On Thursday, the U.N. Security Council will also hold a special session on Syria, with the participation of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay. Rights groups say Syria's crackdown on protestors has killed 1,827 civilians since mid-March, while Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... says 416 security force members have also died fighting "armed terrorists." U.N. spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci told AFP that although the U.N. still had not received a request for the special rights session, it would "most likely" come on Wednesday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 to be followed by a stern letter? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-08-18 13:45 |