The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is examining a resolution, backed by Italy and promoted by Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, strongly condemning violations of fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities, and urging guaranteed access to humanitarian organisations to bring relief to the population of Homs and other areas affected.<\/P>
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Italy is among the resolution\u2019s co-sponsors, as confirmed during the debate by Italian Ambassador Laura Mirachian, head of the UN Mission in Geneva. \u201cWe are looking at a possible humanitarian crisis\u201d, she underscored. The ambassador recalled that this was not the first time that the UN Human Rights Council had debated the Syrian crisis. \u201cTen months after the first special session, the recent report by the inquiry committee confirmed that the serious and systematic violations of human rights have continued unceasingly as innocent civilians are made targets of indiscriminate attacks by the Syrian army and security forces\u201d. The ambassador insisted that the defence of the Syrian people \u201cmust be guaranteed\u201d and that, therefore, international humanitarian organisations had to be allowed to access the areas affected. Moreover, \u201cthe impunity that has thus far prevailed is no longer tollerable. Those responsible for these massive human rights violations, some of which could constitute crimes against humanity, must be prosecuted\u201d, she stressed. <\/P>
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Russia \u2013 which, along with China has vetoed UN Security Council resolutions on Syria \u2013 did not stand in opposition during the Council debate, but had already stated that any \u201cwritten document\u201d resulting from the debate would be counterproductive. In his speech, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gatilov said that his country considers it \u201cimportant\u201d that Damascus cooperate with the Red Cross.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is examining a resolution, backed by Italy and promoted by Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, strongly condemning violations of fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities, and urging guaranteed access to humanitarian organisations to bring relief to the population of Homs and other areas affected. Italy is among […]","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-20765","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\/20765","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=20765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}