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| Syria Fears UN Will Impose Sanctions |
| 2005-10-31 |
| 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 |