Draft resolution on Syria debated at Security Council

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Jan 31, 2012

The UN Security Council debated a draft resolution on Syria and the Assad regime's repression on Monday.

The resolution calls for member states to take steps to prevent the flow of arms in Syria, to demand an immediate end to all violence and to call on President Assad to hand power over to a deputy.

Commending the Arab League's proposed plan for the transfer of power as the "the best effects and efforts of Syria's neighbours to chart a way forward", the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said,

"The alternative - spurning the Arab League, abandoning the Syrian people, emboldening the dictator - would compound this tragedy and would mark a failure of our shared responsibility and shake the credibility of the United Nations Security Council."

 

"The question for us is how many more innocent civilians will die before this country is able to move forward,"

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