Arab group to campaign for UNSC resolution on humanitarian situation in Syria
NEW YORK, Nov 7 (KUNA) — Acting in implementation of the Arab League Ministerial meeting in Cairo, Egypt, last Sunday, the Arab group here mandated its troika to begin contacts with UNSC key members to adopt a resolution on humanitarian situation in Syria, an Arab diplomat told KUNA Thursday.
The troika – the group’s current chairman, Tunisia, the group’s chairman last month, Bahrain, and the group’s chairman next month, Saudi Arabia – along with the Ambassadors of Morocco, the Council’s only Arab member, and of the Arab League to the UN, are scheduled to meet individually in the coming days with the Security Council’s permanent members – China (president), US, UK, France and Russia.
The group also mandated a core group, led by Saudi Arabia, to draft the text of the resolution. Council members, Australia and Luxembourg, tried last month to have the Council adopt a resolution on the “devastating” humanitarian situation in Syria, but failed. All Russia could agree to was a Presidential statement that the Council issued on October 2nd.
In that statement, the Council urged Damascus to immediately allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on all parties to the conflict to agree on humanitarian pauses in the fighting, including along “key routes” for relief convoys.
While resolutions are binding, Presidential statements are not, and press statements are even less. (end) sj.bs KUNA 072305 Nov 13NNNN
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