Updated: 15:15, Wednesday January 30, 2013
Sky NEWS
The nearly two-year-old conflict in Syria is destroying the country 'bit by bit' and the UN Security Council must take action, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says. '
The Security Council simply cannot continue to say 'we are in disagreement, therefore let's wait for better times'... They have got to grapple with this problem now,' Brahimi told reporters after briefing the Council.
'If a little more pressure is brought to bear, maybe a little bit more progress will be made,' the former Algerian foreign minister said.
Brahimi blamed both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and the foreign-backed opposition forces.
'Objectively, they are cooperating to destroy Syria. Syria is being destroyed bit by bit. And in destroying Syria, the region is being pushed into a situation that is extremely bad, and extremely important for the entire world,' Brahimi said.
He said that is why the Security Council has a duty to overcome its divisions.
Brahimi suggested that the Security Council revisit the Geneva Communique of June 2012, a broad but ambiguous proposal endorsed by the US and EU countries as well as Russia to provide a basis for negotiations.
Brahimi said that even though he had 'not made much progress' in his efforts to bring an end to a conflict that has left more than 60,000 people dead, he would not stop trying.
'I am not a quitter,' he said, however adding: 'The moment I feel I am totally useless, I will not stay a minute more.'
Brahimi was scheduled to have dinner later on Tuesday with the UN envoys from the Council's five permanent veto-wielding members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
The comments came after Syrian opposition activists said the bodies of some 65 young men, apparently shot execution-style, had been found in the northern city of Aleppo.
The victims, all between the ages of 20 and 30, were found near the Quwaiq river in the city's Bustan al-Qasr district, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition group.
Video on YouTube showed a row of bodies along the banks of the river; many had their hands tied.
The videos' content could not be independently verified.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel-Rahman said he had no information on who was behind the killings and that the number could reach 80, as more bodies were feared to be under water.
Abu Omar al-Halabi, a Free Syrian Army commander in the city, said that most of the dead were reported kidnapped earlier this year.
Relatives were gathering at the banks of river looking for their missing sons, activists in the area said.
One video circulating on opposition websites showed dozens of men gathering at the site, some wearing medical gloves, others carrying machine guns.
'Their only crime was that they were residents of Bustan al-Qasr and they were Sunni Muslims,' a man was shown shouting as he looked down at bodies awaiting identification.
Syrian television station al-Dunia, which strongly supports President Assad, said 'terrorists' were behind the killings.
In Ras al-Ain, a town on the Turkish border, clashes between rebels and a Kurdish militia ended with the Kurds taking control of a number of rebel-held positions, the Observatory said.
The People's Defence Committees, a militia linked to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), have been fighting insurgents there since mid-January.
Rebels suspect the PYD of collaborating with the Assad regime, while the PYD says it is defending the town from Islamist extremists operating at the behest of Turkey.
The continued violence came as the United Nations warned that its resources were not adequate to deliver assistance to Syrians in need, ahead of a donors conference in Kuwait on Wednesday that aims to secure more than $US1.5 billion ($A1.44 billion) in new cash pledges.
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