Strasbourg, 15/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - Syrian militant and blogger, Dany Abdul Dayem, made an appeal on Tuesday 14 February to the international community to take action: “we need you to act, for you to do something and that you stop talking”. Known as the “the Voice of Syria”, Abdul Dayem, uses videos and live televised eyewitness accounts. He pointed out that discussions have been taking place over a year now in an effort to find a solution. He explained: “we are not tired because of the Syrian army but because of the lack of intervention from the international community”. He explained that the situation was inhumane, “but no one is doing anything against this… It is the responsibility of the international community to put an end to the suffering as soon as possible.”
He explained that the Syrians were not fighting against anybody but for their freedom. The militant urged the international community to support the Free Syrian Army and impose a no-fly zone, which would lead to more deserters. He emphasised that a lot of soldiers were prepared to desert but they were not doing so because they did not have weapons with which to fight. He believes that a contact group is the best that they can hope for in the present moment.
Fawaz Tello, a member of the Syrian National Council also called on the international community to support the Syrian revolution, “by all means possible… with assistance, money and arms too. Why can the killers be armed but those shot down not allowed to defend themselves?”, he added.
Returning to the situation in Homs, Dayem criticised the indiscriminate bombing, the snipers, kidnapping of women and children, raping of women, murders and a lack of medicine. He explains that “every family has lost somebody”.
UN resolution and Juppé-Lavrov meeting this Thursday. Due to lack of consensus at the Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly will make an official announcement on Thursday 16 February and provide a resolution condemning the repression. Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, explained on Wednesday that “we will have a vote at the General Assembly [Thursday], which will be symbolic but if we have more than 130 or 140 countries in the world that say 'stop the massacre, enough is enough, we need to apply the Arab League plan', I think that this symbol will have force”. According to one diplomatic source the success of the resolution does not depend on its adoption, which has almost been acquired, but on the number of countries that vote in favour. The same source explained: “we will see if this new text obtains more or less than the 133 votes (out of 193 countries) obtained in the first resolution adopted on 19 December 2011, to denounce the human rights violations… This will be the measure of success but this time the content of the resolution is more political.” The Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, who met his Dutch counterpart, Uri Rosenthal, on Wednesday, will hold a meeting with Juppé this Thursday.
Russia has been the main source of support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad and it has blocked UN Security Council resolutions on two occasions that condemned the bloody repression which has been going on for almost a year in Syria. (CG/transl.fl)