WORLD_ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for action on Syria

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for action on Syria

THE AUSTRALIAN
From: AFP January 31, 2012 8:31AM



US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that the UN Security Council "must act" on Syria to end President Bashar al-Assad's "violent and brutal attacks" against demonstrators.

Amid Russian opposition to a tough resolution on Syria, Clinton said that she would travel to the United Nations tomorrow to "send a clear message of support to the Syrian people: we stand with you."

"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the escalation of the Syrian regime's violent and brutal attacks on its own people," Ms Clinton said in a statement.

"The Security Council must act and make clear to the Syrian regime that the world community views its actions as a threat to peace and security. The violence must end, so that a new period of democratic transition can begin," she said.

"The longer the Assad regime continues its attacks on the Syrian people and stands in the way of a peaceful transition, the greater the concern that instability will escalate and spill over throughout the region," she said.

Ms Clinton will join other top officials at the United Nations including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi, who on Saturday announced a suspension of an Arab monitoring mission to Syria due to escalating violence.

"The regime has failed to meet its commitments to the Arab League to halt its acts of violence, withdraw its military forces from residential areas, allow journalists and monitors to operate freely and release prisoners arrested because of the current unrest," Ms Clinton said.

But Russia, a main military supplier to Syria, has said that it will use its veto against a draft Security Council resolution, pointing to language against arms deliveries.

Russia has suggested that Assad and the opposition meet in Moscow for "informal contacts" without any preconditions.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the United States supported a political solution in Syria but was "intensely discussing" with Russia the "real deterioration on the ground."

"We're discussing with the Russians and other partners how best to use all the levers at the command of the international community and the United Nations to press the Syrian government to stop its appalling and, ultimately, ineffective and harmful repression," Carney told reporters.

Human rights groups say that more than 5400 people have died in Syria, including 80 on Sunday alone, as Assad cracks down on the latest in a wave of Arab uprisings that have overthrown authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

AFP



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