WORLD News ‘Russia and China again veto Syria resolution’

WORLD News ‘Rusia dan China sekali lagi 

veto Syria resolusi’
By Mardiana‘hamden | MalaysianDate: Friday, July 20, 2012

United Nations (AP) - Rusia dan China sekali lagi menggunakan kuasa veto yang disokong Barat resolusi PBB Khamis bertujuan mendesak kerajaan Presiden Bashar Assad, untuk menamatkan konflik itu meningkat 16 bulan di Syria.

Undi 11-2, dengan 2 berkecuali dari Afrika Selatan dan Pakistan, adalah veto ke-3, 2 resolusi menangani krisis Syria oleh sekutu 'yang paling penting di Damsyik. Kekalahan meninggalkan dalam keadaan terlantar masa depan misi 300-kuat pemerhati PBB di Syria, yang telah dipaksa untuk menggantung operasi kerana pergaduhan yang dipergiatkan. Mandatnya, untuk memantau gencatan senjata dan pelaksanaan pelan damai antarabangsa utusan Kofi Annan, tamat Jumaat.

Britain PBB Duta Mark Lyall Grant, yang menaja draf bersandarkan Barat, berkata beliau "terkejut" di veto ke-3, 2 resolusi yang bertujuan membawa kepada pertumpahan darah di Syria dan mewujudkan syarat untuk ceramah politik. Ketetapan yang telah diancam sekatan jika rejim Syria tidak cepat berhenti menggunakan senjata berat.

"Akibat daripada keputusan mereka adalah jelas," katanya. "Lanjut pertumpahan darah, dan kemungkinan keturunan ke dalam semua keluar perang saudara." Aktivis berkata lebih daripada 17,000 orang telah terbunuh sejak pemberontakan bermula pada Mac 2011, kebanyakan mereka orang awam.

"Akibat tindakan hari ini adalah keadaan akan terus merosot," Duta Besar Amerika Syarikat, Susan Rice kepada pemberita. Rusia PBB Duta Vitaly Churkin berkata ketetapan itu tidak harus sekali-kali telah dikemukakan kepada undi kerana penaja yang tahu ia tidak mempunyai peluang untuk menerima pakai.

"Kita tidak boleh menerima dokumen di bawah Bab 7, 1 yang akan membuka jalan untuk tekanan dan sekatan lanjut penglibatan tentera luar dalam hal ehwal domestik Syria," katanya. Veto terkini adalah 1 tamparan kepada Annan, utusan bersama PBB-Liga Arab ke Syria, yang telah dipanggil untuk "akibat" untuk tidak mematuhi pelan 6 mata keamanan, yang telah melanggar oleh kerajaan Assad.

Undi dalam resolusi yang pada asalnya dijadualkan pada hari Rabu, tetapi Annan meminta kelewatan dan merayu kepada Majlis untuk bersatu di belakang resolusi baru. Moscow tidak akan berganjak, dan Barat menegaskan termasuk ancaman sekatan bukan ketenteraan di bawah Bab 7 Piagam PBB. Yang akhirnya boleh membuka pintu kepada penggunaan kuasa tentera.

Kelewatan Rabu diumumkan tidak lama selepas pengeboman maut mesyuarat keselamatan peringkat tinggi di Damsyik yang telah dibuat ditunda Assad, kuasa kelihatan semakin renggang. Di mana beliau telah menjadi suatu misteri sejak serangan itu, walaupun TV negeri Syria berkata Assad menghadiri majlis angkat sumpah pertahanan baru menteri Khamis.

Kecewa, marah Lyall Grant berkata serangan di Damsyik dalam tempoh 48 jam yang lalu "menunjukkan keperluan untuk tindakan segera dan tegas oleh Majlis Keselamatan untuk menghentikan lingkaran menurun menjadi kacau-bilau yang akan menuntut banyak kehidupan yang lebih tidak bersalah dan menjejaskan kestabilan rantau ini "

Annan jurucakap Ahmad Fawzi berkata, duta itu "kecewa bahawa pada peringkat ini kritikal Majlis Keselamatan PBB tidak dapat bersatu dan mengambil tindakan yang kukuh dan bersepadu beliau telah menggesa dan berharap."

Churkin memberitahu majlis itu beliau tidak akan meletakkan draf resolusi saingan Moscow kepada undi bagi mengelakkan konfrontasi yang berterusan di Majlis Keselamatan. Cadangan Moscow yang dipanggil "pelaksanaan serta-merta" pelan dan Annan garis panduan bagi peralihan politik yang diluluskan pada mesyuarat di Geneva bulan lepas dan akan dilanjutkan misi pemerhati selama 90 hari, tetapi ia tidak menyebut tentang sekatan.

Sebaliknya, Churkin mencadangkan bahawa ahli-ahli majlis mengguna pakai "1 resolusi ringkas depoliticized" melanjutkan misi pemerhati yang tidak bersenjata untuk masa yang terhad untuk mengekalkan "potensi berguna."

WORLD News ‘Russia and China again 

veto Syria resolution’

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia and China again vetoed a Western-backed U.N. resolution Thursday aimed at pressuring President Bashar Assad's government to end the escalating 16-month conflict in Syria.

The 11-2 vote, with two abstentions from South Africa and Pakistan, was the third double veto of a resolution addressing the Syria crisis by Damascus' most important allies. The defeat leaves in limbo the future of the 300-strong U.N. observer mission in Syria, which was forced to suspend operations because of the intensified fighting. Its mandate, to monitor a cease-fire and implementation of international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan, expires Friday.

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, who sponsored the Western-backed draft, said he was "appalled" at the third double veto of a resolution aimed at bringing an end to the bloodshed in Syria and creating conditions for political talks. The resolution had threatened sanctions if the Syrian regime didn't quickly stop using heavy weapons.

"The consequence of their decision is obvious," he said. "Further bloodshed, and the likelihood of descent into all-out civil war." Activists say more than 17,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011, most of them civilians.

"The consequence of today's action is the situation will continue to deteriorate," U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters. Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the resolution should never have been put to a vote because the sponsors knew it had no chance of adoption.

"We simply cannot accept a document under Chapter 7, one which would open the path for the pressure of sanctions and further to external military involvement in Syrian domestic affairs," he said. The latest veto was a blow to Annan, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, who had called for "consequences" for non-compliance with his six-point peace plan, which has been flouted by the Assad government.

The vote on the resolution was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but Annan requested a delay and appealed to the council to unite behind a new resolution. Moscow wouldn't budge, and the West insisted on including the threat of non-military sanctions under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter. That could eventually open the door to the use of military force.

Wednesday's delay was announced shortly after the deadly bombing of a high-level security meeting in Damascus that has made Assad's hold on power look increasingly tenuous. His whereabouts have been a mystery since the attack, though Syrian state TV said Assad attended the swearing-in of his new defense minister Thursday.

A frustrated, angry Lyall Grant said the attacks in Damascus over the last 48 hours "demonstrate the need for urgent and decisive action by the Security Council to stop the downward spiral into chaos which will claim many more innocent lives and affect the stability of the region."

Annan's spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said the envoy "is disappointed that at this critical stage the U.N. Security Council could not unite and take the strong and concerted action he had urged and hoped for."

Churkin told the council he would not put Moscow's rival draft resolution to a vote to avoid continuing confrontation in the Security Council. Moscow's proposal called for the "immediate implementation" of Annan's plan and guidelines for a political transition approved at a meeting in Geneva last month and would have extended the observer mission for 90 days, but it made no mention of sanctions.

Instead, Churkin proposed that council members adopt "a brief depoliticized resolution" extending the mission of the unarmed observers for a limited time to preserve its "useful potential."

1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: Members vote during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria July 19, 2012 at the United Nations in New York. Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad if he does not end the use of heavy weapons. It was the third time in nine months that Russia and China have used their powers as permanent members of the 15-nation council to block resolutions on Syria. (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)  (TINJAUAN 1WC'sChannel 2012: Ahli undi semasa mesyuarat Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu Majlis ke atas Syria Julai 19, 2012 di Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di New York. Rusia dan China pada Khamis veto resolusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB yang akan mengenakan sekatan terhadap Bashar Presiden Syria al-Assad, jika dia tidak menamatkan penggunaan senjata berat. Ia merupakan kali ke-3 dalam tempoh 9 bulan bahawa Rusia dan China telah menggunakan kuasa mereka sebagai ahli-ahli tetap majlis 15 negara untuk menyekat resolusi ke atas Syria). (AFP Gambar/Don Emmert)

Rusia, China veto resolusi yang disokong barat Syria di Majlis Keselamatan PBB

Rusia dan China telah menggunakan kuasa veto Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu resolusi yang mengancam Syria dengan sekatan lanjut. Ia merupakan kali ke-3 dalam tempoh 9 bulan bahawa Rusia dan China menggunakan kuasa mereka sebagai ahli-ahli tetap majlis 15 negara untuk menyekat resolusi ke atas Syria. Terdapat 11 undi memihak kepada resolusi. Rusia dan China mengundi terhadapnya, manakala Afrika Selatan dan Pakistan berkecuali daripada mengundi. Menangani majlis, Wakil Rusia ke PBB Vitaly Churkin menuduh ahli-ahli Barat UNSC cuba untuk "menyemarakkan api konfrontasi dalam Majlis Keselamatan."

"Draf resolusi yang telah mengundi pada berat sebelah. Ancaman sekatan telah dilemparkan secara eksklusif pada kerajaan Syria, dan ia tidak mencerminkan realiti di negara ini hari ini. Ia adalah terutamanya samar-samar memandangkan apa yang berlaku dengan serangan yang kubur pengganas yang mengambil tempat di Damsyik", Churkin tambah. Setiausaha Luar Britain, William Hague, yang menyediakan draf resolusi itu, sebelum itu berkata krisis yang semakin teruk mengesahkan keperluan mendesak untuk 1 resolusi Bab 7 Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu ke atas Syria."

Bab 7 membolehkan majlis 15 anggota untuk membenarkan tindakan daripada sekatan diplomatik dan ekonomi untuk campur tangan ketenteraan. Pegawai Amerika Syarikat telah berkata, mereka bercakap mengenai sekatan ke atas Syria, tidak campur tangan ketenteraan, tetapi Rusia dan China percaya membolehkan 1 resolusi untuk lulus boleh mewujudkan ulangan apa yang dipanggil 'Libya senario.

1 resolusi yang disokong oleh Rusia telah dijadualkan akan dibentangkan kepada UNSC juga, tetapi Churkin berkata draf tidak akan dikemukakan kepada undi, selepas beberapa anggota Majlis enggan untuk berbincang. "Kami percaya bahawa konfrontasi yang berterusan dalam Majlis Keselamatan untuk menjadi tidak berguna dan produktif, dan atas sebab ini, kita tidak akan mengemukakan draf kepada undi", Chukin berkata. Sebaliknya, wakil Rusia mencadangkan 1 resolusi ringkas yang depoliticized ke atas peluasan teknikal bagi misi pemerhati PBB, yang mandatnya tamat pada hari Jumaat.

Sementara itu, Duta Amerika Syarikat ke Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu Susan Rice telah menyelar Rusia dan China untuk vetoing resolusi. "PBB Setiausaha Agung, Ban Ki-moon tidak menyalahkan keganasan dihalang di Syria, dan tidak Kofi Annan. Menyalahkan terletak dengan rejim Assad dan negara-negara bahawa hari ini enggan untuk mengambil tindakan terhadap," kata Rice. Amerika Syarikat juga telah enggan untuk mengundi bagi resolusi yang akan memanjangkan misi pemerhati PBB di Syria, yang dijangka akan dibentangkan di dalam Majlis Keselamatan lewat pada hari Khamis.

Russia, China veto western-backed Syria resolution 

at UN Security Council

Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that threatened Syria with more sanctions. It was the third time in nine months that Russia and China used their powers as permanent members of the 15-nation council to block resolutions on Syria. There were 11 votes in favor of the resolution. Russia and China voted against it, while South Africa and Pakistan abstained from voting. Addressing the council, Russian Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin accused the Western members of the UNSC of attempting to "fan the flames of confrontation in the Security Council."

"The draft resolution which was voted on was biased. The threat of sanctions was leveled exclusively at the government of Syria, and does not reflect the realities in the country today. It's especially ambiguous in light of what happened with the grave terrorist attack that took place in Damascus", Churkin added.  British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who drafted the resolution, earlier said the worsening crisis confirmed "the urgent need for a Chapter 7 resolution of the UN Security Council on Syria."

Chapter 7 allows the 15-member council to authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military intervention. US officials have said they are talking about sanctions on Syria, not military intervention, but Russia and China strongly believe allowing such a resolution to pass could create a repeat of the so-called 'Libya scenario.'

A Russia-backed resolution was scheduled to be presented to the UNSC as well, but Churkin said the draft will not be put to a vote, after some members of the Council refused to even discuss it.  "We believe that continued confrontation in the Security Council to be useless and counterproductive, and for this reason we will not submit our draft to a vote", Chukin said. Instead, the Russian representative proposed a brief depoliticized resolution on a technical extension for the UN observer mission, whose mandate expires on Friday.

Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has slammed Russia and China for vetoing the resolution.  "UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is not to blame for the unstoppable violence in Syria, and neither is Kofi Annan. The blame lies with the Assad regime and those countries that to this day refuses to take action against it," Rice said.  The US has also refused to vote for a resolution that would prolong the UN observer mission in Syria, which is expected to be presented in the Security Council later on Thursday.