Armenia abstained from voting UN General Assembly Resolution on Syria
00:24, 4 August, 2012
YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRRESS: Armenia abstained from vetoing the
resolution submitted from UN General Assembly on Syria issue. Armenian
Foreign Affairs press secretary Tigran Balayan told Armenpress.
Russia qualified UN General Assembly’s new resolution unbalanced and
voted against it. 133 countries voted in favor, 12 against, 31
abstained. Started from February 2012 the number of the countries
abstaining grew from 17 to 31.
The resolution initiated by Saudi Arabia has undergone significant
changes in elaboration stages: Arab League calls for applications of
sanctions against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad on removal from
office were withdrawn from the resolution.
The resolution itself composed of provisions condemning Syrian
authorities and not the armed opposition, which aims at overthrow of
the incumbent Government. UN General Assembly resolution, unlike the
Security Council resolution, is of advisory and not of declarative
nature.
In particular, U.N.-Arab League permanent representative for Syria in
a mission to build a democratic civil society and state is asked to
focus on the peaceful mechanisms. Earlier Russian called it as
permanent representative’s `’mandate elaboration”, whose mission was
to establish a dialogue between Syrian authorities and opposition and
not to assure the change of power in official Damascus.
Currently Kofi Annan held the office of U.N.-Arab League peace envoy
for Syria. Kofi Annan resigned on August 2, 2012 though mandate
expires on August 31.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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