Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Says Syria Crisis to Escalate If No UN Action
By Deema Almashabi and Glen Carey - Jan 22, 2013
The United Nations must act to end violence in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad’s actions make negotiations impossible, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said.
“Damascus was carpet bombed,” Prince Saud said in Riyadh today, when asked if Saudi Arabia is pushing for talks between the main rebel group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, and Assad’s government. “How can we conceive of the possibility of a negotiated solution with someone who does that to his own country, his own people, his own history?”
The General Assembly must get involved if the Security Council continues to fail to muster enough support to intervene, Prince Saud said.
Russia and China blocked two Security Council resolutions to force an end to the civil war, which began in March 2011 and has claimed the lives of at least 60,000 people as fighting increasingly splits Syria along sectarian lines.
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