With 20 people reportedly killed by Syrian security forces in anti-government protests on Friday, opposition activists are now urging protesters to rally for a no-fly zone over the country – a move tantamount to foreign intervention. Stop the War Coalition activist Jim Brann believes that the reason why the US and its allies haven’t yet [...]
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October 28, 2011
October 21, 2011
Moscow slams Western draft resolution on Syria
The Western draft resolution on Syria could provoke a Libyan scenario in the country, Russian Prime Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. He underscored that Russia is opposed to Syria sanctions. “The Western resolution is fraught with the repetition of a Libyan scenario although its co-authors are trying to convince us otherwise,” he said. The [...]
October 10, 2011
October 8, 2011
Yemeni president ‘will stay in power as long as it takes’
Another country that has suffered months of civil unrest is Yemen. Its president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, announced on Saturday that he is to step down in the coming days. This follows nine months of violent protests, with the opposition demanding an end to Saleh’s 33-year rule. But Sabah al-Mukhtar, president of the Arab Lawyers’ Association, [...]
October 7, 2011
Russia’s Medvedev to Syrian government: shape up or quit
Syria’s leadership should carry through reforms in the country or leave office, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday. Like other countries, Russia is interested in an early end to the bloodshed in Syria and is making its position known to the Syrian leadership, he said. “If the Syrian leadership is unable to complete such [...]
October 7, 2011
Russia to oppose one-sided Western UN sanctions
Russia will oppose attempts by some Western countries to use the UN Security Council to legitimize one-sided sanctions against ‘undesirable’ regimes, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Thursday. “Some Western countries and regional associations have been increasingly resorting to the tactics of imposing one-sided sanctions against ‘uncooperative’ regimes,” he said. “In making such [...]
October 5, 2011
Russia and China veto UN resolution against Syrian regime
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, attacks China and Russia’s veto of a resolution threatening sanctions against the Syrian regime Link to this video Russia and China have vetoed a European-backed UN security council resolution that threatened sanctions against the Syrian regime if it did not immediately halt its military crackdown against [...]
October 5, 2011
US hits out at Russia and China after UN security council veto on Syria
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, says China and Russia’s veto of a resolution on Syria showed ‘who on this council supports [Syrians'] yearning for liberty and human rights’. The European-backed resolution threatened sanctions against the Syrian regime if it did not immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians