U.N. Council Reaches Rare Syria Accord after Mosque Bomb
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The U.N. Security Council on Friday set aside differences on the Syria conflict to agree a rare statement condemning a suicide bomb attack on a Damascus mosque without blaming it on any side.
"The Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in a mosque in Damascus," the statement said. More than 45 people, including a senior pro-government cleric, were killed in Thursday's blast.
The council expressed "deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the families of the victims of this heinous act and to the people of Syria."
The 15-member council has been bitterly divided over the two-year conflict. Russia has sought to shield President Bashar Assad, while the United States, Britain and France have given increasing support to opposition rebels.
22 March 2013, 20:24
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Condemnations are words while killing is an actual daily happening in Syria that had harvested thousands of people while the UN is acting reticently and cowardly. Where are human rights to be defended from a regime’s machine that’s killing daily hundreds of Syrians? Where are those who say they are suffering from the killings while sitting in their ivory towers witnessing the daily massacres? It’s amazing how double standards are rife in the western world that claims support for human rights! The UN in my opinion should close down because it never did anything worthwhile for this world. Enough garbage from the world.
23 March 2013, 01:37
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How about sympathies for scud missle and TNT barrel bomb victims
23 March 2013, 17:00
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Realist, the truth is that ignorant killers, spouting Religous Hatred are trying to overthow a government by force. They are killing people aligned with the government regardless of whether they are valid military targets or not. These killers are backed by foreign governments and include hundreds of foreign mercenaries. I have no stake in the outcome. The Fact is that the Syrian government is not only doing the right thing ,they are doing what any government would do.
