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United Nations Appeal to Facilitate Aid to Syria by Removing Sanctions by Rene Wadlow
On 10 February 2023, Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council made an urgent Appeal to facilitate aid to Syria by removing the current sactions imposed by a certain number of countries on Syria due to the massive and long-lasting human rights violations linked to the armed conflict which began in March 2011. The Appeal was led by Professor Alena Douhan, Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights. Professor Douhan is professor of international law at the Belarusian State University in Minsk.
Special Rapporteurs of the U.N. Human Rights Council are independent experts. They are not members of the U.N. Secretariat although Secretariat staff participate in research and editing. The Special Rapporteurs are not paid but their expenses are covered when in Geneva or on missions in the field. The idea for the creation of the Special Rapporteurs was to free them, to the extent possible, of pressures from governments or from the U.N. Secretariat. They report to the Human Rights Council, usuallly at every session.
The earthquake which hit parts of Turkiya and Syria was particularly catastrophic. It is estimated that some 50,000 persons have been killed and many more uprooted. In the case of Syria, the quake hit parts of the country that were already devastated by the civil war.
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The Sunset Journey #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I watch the sun go down
From my balcony and the
Sunset is glowing orange,
I consider it all swimming
In a a cool glass of Chablis,
And my soul is stretched taut,
Spread out against the sky
Like a sail catching the wind.”
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Sceptic feathers #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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Mr. Erdogan said both nations had sought Turkey's help on the issue. Mediation would begin at a low level and, if successful, progress to higher-level officials, he said.
On Thursday Syria said Israel had indicated it would be prepared to withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for peace. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declined to comment on the reports, but Mr. Olmert has said that he is interested in peace in Syria.
Israel and Syria remain technically at war, although both sides have recently spoken of their desire for peace.
It looks like a holiday advert; dictators from all around the world come to Syria … What’s the matter with Erdogan? He heard that the North Koreans help Syria to build a nuclear reactor and they run to take their share?
The United States has accused North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that "was not intended for peaceful purposes".
The site, said to be like one in North Korea, was bombed by Israel in 2007. Syria must "come clean" about its secret nuclear programme, the White House said in a statement after CIA officials briefed members of Congress.
Syria has repeated denials that it has any nuclear weapons programme, or any such agreement with North Korea.But the White House said the "cover-up" operation that Syria carried out after the Israeli air strike reinforced the belief that the reactor "was not intended for peaceful activities".
"Until 6 September, 2007, the Syrian regime was building a covert nuclear reactor in its eastern desert capable of producing plutonium," the statement said. "The Syrian regime must come clean before the world regarding its illicit nuclear activities."
Why every time I read something like that I feel that is going to rain …bombs?
I’m still trying to find out when Syria change her name and from Syria is called …network; you see UN must know something I don’t! A UN commission investigating the death of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri says the evidence suggests a network of people was responsible for the attack. No individuals were named, but the investigators said what it called the "Hariri Network" might also be behind other deadly attacks in Lebanon. The ex-PM and 22 others died in a huge car bombing in Beirut in February 2005.
Past UN inquiries suggested that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence forces had played a role - which Syria denied. The commission said the evidence indicated that the network existed before his assassination and carried out surveillance of the former prime minister. It said at least part of the network continued to operate after Mr. Hariri's killing.
Lebanon has been in crisis and without a president for months, amid a drawn-out power struggle between the pro- and anti-Syrian factions.
