The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
– Russian responsibility –
The United States, Britain and France have pushed for a quick vote to address the dire situation on the ground as Syrian warplanes pounded Eastern Ghouta.
The US State Department said Russia had a “unique responsibility for what is taking place” in the rebel-held enclave near Damascus.
“Without Russia backing Syria, the devastation and the deaths would certainly not be occurring,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert told journalists.
Outside UN headquarters in New York, a coalition of aid groups put up three billboards, inspired by the film “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” that said “500,000 dead in Syria. And still no action? How come Security Council?”
The draft resolution would pave the way for the truce to go into effect 72 hours after the adoption of the measure and for aid deliveries and medical evacuations to begin 48 hours after that.
It demands the immediate lifting of all sieges including in Eastern Ghouta, Yarmouk, Foua and Kefraya and orders all sides to “cease depriving civilians of food and medicine indispensable to their survival.”
In a concession to Russia, the draft was amended during tough-going negotiations last week to specify that the ceasefire does not apply to the Islamic State group or Al-Qaeda.
That would allow the Syrian government offensive to continue against Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Idlib, the last province in Syria outside the control of Damascus.
French Ambassador Francois Delattre warned that failure to act to help Eastern Ghouta would deal a blow to UN credibility and could sound “the death knell of the United Nations.”
More than 340,000 people have been killed and millions driven from the homes in the war, which next month enters its eighth year with no end in sight.
My finding is that the United Nations Security Counsel is very ill(Paralyzed ) and is needed to be treated properly, otherwise it would die(UN would/should be without Security Counsel) the UN-Assembly should take the place and solve the Problems democratically.
Problem is the existing of VETO which was used improperly, instead of being for the World’s interest it became for the own interests between the super-powers(before it was utilized by the Western side and today by the Russia for own interests).
Change for Better World is needed, New Faces & New Brains are needed inside the United Nations. .