The Conservative government urged further action to stop the tide of brutal extremism in Syria and Iraq with a strong denunciation of ISIL by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird at the UN Security Council.
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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird speaks to the UN Security Council on Friday, as it met to discuss the situation of the Islamic State group in Iraq.
By: Tonda MacCharles Ottawa Bureau reporter, Published on Fri Sep 19 2014
OTTAWA—The Canadian government urged further, unspecified action to stop the tide of brutal extremism in Syria and Iraq with a strong denunciation of ISIL by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird at the United Nations Security Council.
At a special Security Council meeting led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Friday, Baird made a call for a united approach by the international community, saying the Islamic State in the Levant, now calling itself IS, is more than an isolated cell of extremists and is a “terrorist army.”
Its extremist ideology and “bloodthirsty methods are shared by a growing number of other groups around the world,” Baird said.
“The question we must answer today is how do we, as an international community of civilized nations, confront this dangerous and nihilistic force?”
Baird did not offer a prescription for action, but said: “We must work together, to each of our strengths and abilities.”
He told reporters in addition to the $10 million Ottawa is spending on non-lethal military support to Iraqi forces, including de-mining technology, the Conservative government will participate in a “working conference” led by Bahrain to try to cut off finances of the group and its combatants, and is interested in U.K.-led opposition to sexual violence in the conflict.
Baird said reports of the systematic rape of women and children by IS fighters is a “huge concern” and said Canada is eyeing the looming humanitarian crisis as winter approaches for the 1.8 million displaced persons fleeing the terrorist group’s sweep through Iraq and Syria. Further steps will be discussed at the UN’s general assembly when world leaders meet next week in New York, he said.
While international delegates agreed the Islamic State is a new and dangerous threat to security in the region, there was a clear divide among heavyweight powers at the Security Council on how to proceed.
Russia told the meeting it was “extremely concerned” with the American approach and “conducting airstrikes on ISIL positions in Syria” without the authorization of the Syrian government. It rejected past adventures in regime change in the region. “We need to act extremely cautiously,” said Russia’s delegate, calling for a “brainstorming session” on terrorism in the entire region and North Africa.
China’s representative said more attention needs to be paid to the “spreading of terrorism by Internet,” and the trans-border movements of terrorists, calling China a “sincere friend of the people of Iraq” but willing to “join the international community” in its efforts to ensure peace in Iraq.
Turkey insisted that Syria and Iraq must be treated as a “single theatre of action” and that Syria was the real incubator of terrorism in the region.
Baird told reporters Canada had not yet taken “a firm view” on airstrikes in Syria and whether the consent of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was necessary. He said Assad has “gassed his own people,” and it could be argued that Iraq has been invaded by a terrorist group from a neighbouring country and has a “right” to call on international help.
The Conservative government has deployed 69 Canadian special forces commandos to Iraq, but has said little of their role other than to describe them as non-combat forces in the region to advise frontline fighters. Baird offered no other details Friday.
He said it is a “test” for the international community’s commitment to principles “of human liberty and dignity.”
“And we cannot afford to fail.”
The UN’s Security Council in August passed a resolution calling on member states to adopt national measures to “suppress the flow of foreign terrorist fighters,” to prevent the delivery of supplies to ISIL and al-Nusra “and associated individuals and groups, of arms and related materials.”
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