...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
will investigate attacks on UN-supported facilities in northwest Syria, Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...announced on Thursday, two days after two-thirds of the Security Council pushed for such an inquiry.
Britannia, La Belle France, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Peru, Poland, Kuwait, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia delivered a demarche - a formal diplomatic petition - to Guterres on Tuesday over the lack of an inquiry into attacks on some 14 locations.The United Nations will investigate attacks on UN-supported facilities in northwest Syria, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says, two days after two-thirds of the Security Council pushed for such an inquiry.
"The investigation will cover destruction of, or damage to facilities on the de-confliction list and UN-supported facilities in the area," UN front man Stephane Dujarric said in a statement, adding that it will "ascertain the facts of these incidents and report to the Secretary-General."
"The Secretary-General urges all parties concerned to cooperate with the board once it has been established," Dujarric said.
The locations of the UN supported facilities and other humanitarian sites like hospitals and health centers had been shared with the warring parties in a bid to protect them. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the United Nations has questioned whether it made them a target.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
’s forces, backed by Russia, began an offensive on the last major holy warrior stronghold three months ago that the United Nations says has killed at least 450 civilians and displaced more than 440,000 people.
Russia and Syria have said their forces are not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure and questioned the sources used by the United Nations to verify attacks. Syria has also told the United Nations that more than a 100 sites "have been out of commission since being taken over by terrorist groups."
An array of bully boyz have a foothold in northwestern Syria. The most powerful is the murderous Moslem Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, the latest incarnation of the former Nusra Front which was part of al Qaeda until 2016.
The Security Council has been deadlocked on Syria with Russia and China - two of the body’s five veto powers along with Britannia, La Belle France and the United States - shielding Assad’s government from any action during eight years of war.