03.02.2012                      10.Schwat. 5772

Syrien-Resolution:

Arabs, West seek to avert veto of UN Syria draft

Drafters of UNSC resolution to stop Syria's bloody upheaval revise their text in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto.

Arab and Western drafters of a UN Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language Moscow has rejected.
Morocco circulated the slightly amended draft to the 15-nation council after Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told a closed-door session of the 15-nation body Moscow would veto the draft if it were put to a vote on Friday with a phrase saying the council "fully supports" an Arab League plan calling for Syria's president to step aside, Western diplomats said….