“Text has made scant mention of armed opposition’s role in violence”
India abstained from voting on a resolution, denouncing the Syrian government, at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday night. It found that the text made scant mention of the role of the armed opposition, which was setting a “dangerous trend” by using weapons of “very high sophistication,” in the violence, said sources in the Foreign Office here.
The resolution was passed with 133 countries supporting it, 12 opposing it and 31 abstentions after an acrimonious debate.
“There were some problematic formulations,” said the sources, pointing out that the resolution was strident about the role of the Syrian government but dismissed the involvement of non-state actors in a single-line reference. In contrast, last month’s Security Council resolution, which was vetoed by China and Russia, indicted the armed opposition groups for their ‘continued violations of human rights’.”
“The UNSC had earlier acknowledged that the onus for ending violence does not lie on one side alone. This [UNGA] makes no effort at all,” said the sources.
In this respect, observations by India’s Permanent Representative at the U.N. Hardeep Puri were once again even-handed — neither side had implemented its obligations under the six-point plan of Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, a number of terrorist acts were committed against state institutions and public infrastructure and there were gross violations of human rights by all sides. The sources also commented on the UNGA deploring the UNSC inability to end the conflict. And while they had no issues with this unusual spectacle of some UNSC members themselves piloting a resolution that criticised their efforts, Indian diplomats were not pleased with the resolution making a reference to an Arab League resolution that sought the removal of the Syrian President.
The mass movement or the civil war, has been against the
authoritarian regime of Syria, like in the past,in Iraq, Egypt and
Libya.But, the terrorist acts being committed against the state
organizations and public infrastructures(against human rights) is
bound to find no solution.Killing of about 19000 people and leaving
tens of thousands homeless and without food will further increase the
misery. Ultimately, it is the innocent subject who shall have to pay
a heavy price even if rebellions succeed in having some political
reforms. India has signaled a right message by abstaining from voting
on the resolution. However, India must explicitly make it clear to
Syria that remedy could be found in democratic framework only and had
Syria not responded ruthlessly, at the very outset,to masses it would
have arrived at some conclusion. India should once again gear up its
efforts through diplomacy for permanent membership of Security
Council. UNGA should have mandatory role not symbolic only.
India would have done better to have opposed it and instead of judging that there were "gross violations of human rights by all sides", they should look at the strong evidence that all the massacres at Houla and elsewhere were committed by US backed terrorists from countries such as Libya, Saudi and elsewhere. More than two major German papers have done their own research to show this. Also check the analysis of historian Webster Tarpley. And today we get the news of Iranian shiites kidnapped by these same terrorists, even though the western mainstream, AP and so on refers to them as 'Syrians'. Why would ordinary Syrians do that? But it makes sense that Sunni's which group these terrorists happen to belong to, would. The world is being taken for a ride, with the US supporting Al Qaeda in both Libya and Syria and the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt. Just like they have supported Mujahideen and Taliban in Afghanistan and other dictators across the Arab world and elsewhere.
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