UN Sanctions Threat For Syria

[cal04]

The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution demanding Syria cooperates with the assassination investigation into Rafik Hariri's death.

If Syrian authorities refuse to comply with the probe, they could face international economic sanctions.A UN inquiry has implicated Syrian and Lebanese authorities after the former Lebanese Premier was killed in a bomb attack.

The resolution was adopted 15-0 after Britain, France and the US agreed to drop specific references to sanctions and instead said the council would consider "unspecified further action" if Syria did not comply. Syria earlier urged the council to adopt a "balanced" resolution and not bow to US pressure to impose strict sanctions.

British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said the UN report into Mr Hariri's killing is "serious and disturbing". Russia and China opposed the threat of sanctions, prompting the three main drafters of the resolution to leave out the specific threat.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13455881,00.html

[Village Idiot]

1. I wonder when Israel will face have sanctions imposed, too?

Didn't Ariel Sharon actually supervise the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin PERSONALLY, from his ranch in Negev?

I wonder if there will ever be an official inquiry into the death by poisoning of Yasser Arafat?

It's a good thing that the USA would never sink to the level of targeting foreign leaders for assassination...



US GOV'T ASSASSINATION PLOTS
1949 - Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s - CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany
to be "put out of the way" in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s - Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 - Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) - Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 - Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 - Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 - Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s - José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 - Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 - Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s - Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 - Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 - Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 - Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 - General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 - General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 - Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 - Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 - Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 - Miguel d'Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 - The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 - Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 - Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 - Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 - Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 - Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
2003 - Saddam Hussein and his two sons

[enigma000]

3. 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam

Regurgitating Republican lies?


1998, 2001-2 - Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant (??? !!!)

Hell, we tried to kill Hitler too........that should go on the list.

[tatertop]

8. Yes, it should be sanctions for all the guilty or sanctions for none

[sabra]

2. Sanctions Dropped From Syria Resolution (last-minute effort)

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/10/31/ap/headlines/d8dj3mc80.txt

Sanctions Dropped From Syria Resolution


UNITED NATIONS - Key U.N. Security Council members dropped the threat of sanctions against Syria on Monday in a last-minute effort to get all 15 nations to back a resolution demanding that Damascus cooperate with an investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister.

The resolution co-sponsored by the United States, Britain and France had called for possible economic sanctions if Syria didn't comply, citing the U.N. Charter. But Russia and China objected strongly to mentioning sanctions while the investigation into Rafik Hariri's killing is still under way.

The new text, obtained by The Associated Press, dropped the reference to the U.N. Charter, saying only that if Syria doesn't cooperate "the council, if necessary, could consider further action."

In another concession to try to get Russia and China on board, the co-sponsors also agreed to drop an appeal to Syria to renounce all support "for all forms of terrorist action and all assistance to terrorist groups."

[jsamuel]

4. Ah, so China and Russia must be Democrats?

[AngryAmish]

5. This is good

I understand that the US has been a bad actor for many years in many ways.

However there is (in my mind) very convincing evidence that Syrian officials whacked Hariri. The investigation was done by the UN, with a German investigator.

I could still be wrong. But Syria has not been helpful with the investigation. This resolution allows a proper inquiry. If no help with the investigation then there should be some sanctions.

It seems like Syria is getting its last best chance to help. IF the UN is to mean anything than the UN must be prepared to make their threats mean something. If not it is just a debating society.

[termo]

9. economic sanction...

Let start with economic sanction against US and UK for an illigal war.
:yoiks:
I don't want to defend Syria, nevertheless any country should be judged with the same rules.

[AngryAmish]

10. Agreed

The UN should do something about US and UK. However, if the world can do something about Syria it should.

[AngryAmish]

6. double post

ashes and sackcloth

[MarsThe Cat]

7. unspecified further action...?

oh yeah:

:nuke:

[wakeme2008]

11. Bolton lost his sanctions NOW..

:bounce:

[TheVirginian]

12. I love these threads...

No matter what the rest of the world is up to, let's turn our attention to what we've done in the past, and spend all of our time debating our history, and let the rest of the world sort itself out. Why bother being in the UN or supporting it if your only intention is to villify the U.S.?

This is in specific response to the Village Idiot.

[daleo]

13. How is it a "Sanctions Threat for Syria"

if "Britain, France and the US agreed to drop specific references to sanctions and instead said the council would consider "unspecified further action" if Syria did not comply"?

The propaganda is crazy.