{"id":20022,"date":"2012-05-07T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/05\/20120507_onusiria-2\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T11:25:36","slug":"20120507_onusiria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/05\/20120507_onusiria\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Observers in Syria: the group includes Italians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The group of Observers in Syria, as decided by UN Resolution 2043 of 21 April 2012, will include Italians. The Council of Ministers will be meeting tomorrow, 8 May, to authorise the mission of unarmed personnel to Syria. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>To date, there are 24 observers on Syrian territory, with the number set to rise by the end of May to around 300. Their task, under the UN Resolution, is to verify that the ceasefire is being respected \u2013 one of the essential points of the Annan Plan to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Parliamentary elections<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Today, Monday 7 May, Syria is holding parliamentary elections that all of the opposition groups h<A name=\"_GoBack\"><\/A>ave defined as a \u201cfarce\u201d and are therefore boycotting. The People\u2019s Assembly has for half a century been dominated by the Arab Socialist Ba\u2019ath Party, led by the current President, Bashar al Assad. Assad has been in power for 12 years, having inherited the position from his father Hafez, who in turn held the role for 30 years. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The majority of the seats (127 out of 250) are allocated to \u201cworker\u201d and \u201cfarmer\u201d candidates from lists close to the regime. A minority of seats (123) is allocated to independents. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>A year of revolt: 9000 victims<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The people\u2019s revolt began in March 2011 and has been subjected to bloody repression by the regime\u2019s police and military forces. According to the UN\u2019s figures the number of deaths, mainly civilians, over the last year is 9000 and rising. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group of Observers in Syria, as decided by UN Resolution 2043 of 21 April 2012, will include Italians. The Council of Ministers will be meeting tomorrow, 8 May, to authorise the mission of unarmed personnel to Syria. To date, there are 24 observers on Syrian territory, with the number set to rise by the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,6,26],"class_list":["post-20022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-onu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022","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=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}