Kofi Annan\u2019s peace plan for Syria \u201cis not dead\u201d, he said as much himself at the end of a meeting of the UN Security Council in which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, however, affirmed that hopes were fading for the success of the plan such as it is. After a discussion in the General Assembly, Annan said that his plan \u201chas not been implemented\u201d, and that diplomatic forces were now aimed at boosting the plan through a new resolution, while the situation on the ground in Syria is becoming increasingly dramatic, not least in light of the shots fired at UN observers and TV reports from around the world describing the latest shocking massacre in Hama; a massacre that, as the White House announced through its spokesperson Jay Carney, has shown the world even more clearly that \u201cthe Assad regime is illegitimate\u201d and that the democratic transition of Syria \u201ccannot take place with a tyrant like Assad, willing to ruthlessly murder his own people, in power. <\/P>
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Risk of genocide<\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cThe strategy chosen by Damascus\u201d, Minister Giulio Terzi stated, \u201crisks resulting in genocide if intervention is not rapid\u201d, and Annan warned that if the international community is not united in bring pressure to bear on Damascus, \u201cthe situation in Syria will soon spin out of control\u201d. The former UN Secretary General also reiterated that his plan had been designed to allow for a strategic change in the Damascus government. Unfortunately, he added, that has not happened. Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke for the German government, once again calling for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al Assad and expressing her \u201chorror\u201d at the recent massacres. \u201cAny leadership that allows certain crimes to go on in its country loses all legitimacy. A political solution, an end to the conflict that sees Mr. Assad still in power in Syria is unthinkable\u201d, said Merkel\u2019s spokesman Steffen Seibert. The German government then urged the UN Security Council to act more decisively against the Syrian regime. \u201cThe attitude of the Security Council will be a determining factor in future developments in Syria\u201d, Seibert commented.<\/P> A new resolution<\/STRONG><\/P> The goal now is a new resolution that provides more specific instructions on implementing the plan itself, including a very precise deadline, while the U.S. and the Arab League continue to urge the UN to slap the regime with additional economic sanctions on the basis of Chapter 7 of the UN Charter. A new resolution could be facilitated by the recent \u201cencouraging\u201d signals coming from Moscow: Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov made it known for the first time that Moscow had \u201cnever said\u201d that Assad \u201chad to necessarily remain in power until the end of the political process\u201d, and from the Istanbul summit came a clear appeal for Moscow\u2019s involvement; \u201can essential partner\u201d, said Terzi, who noted \u201csigns that Moscow\u2019s support for the Assad regime is not a foregone conclusion\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kofi Annan\u2019s peace plan for Syria \u201cis not dead\u201d, he said as much himself at the end of a meeting of the UN Security Council in which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, however, affirmed that hopes were fading for the success of the plan such as it is. After a discussion in the General Assembly, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[397,43,9,6,42],"class_list":["post-19685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diritti-umani","tag-europa","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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