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| Tuesday, February
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| UN
Security Council should approve a mandate for international mission in Syria.
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The
UN Security Council should approve a mandate of any international mission
in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Tuesday,
February 14, 2012. Syrian government forces renewed their assault on the
rebellious city of Homs on Tuesday, activists said, as the U.N. human
rights chief raised fears of civil war.
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Syrian rebels trying to resist against attacks from armed forces of President
Bashar Assad
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At
the last meeting of the Arab League it was decided to send UN peacekeeping
forces to Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow
was studying the suggestions of the Arab League. Later Russian Presidential
Middle East Ambassador Mikhail Bogdanov added that Russia did not rule
out its participation in a potential UN peacekeeping mission to Syria.
“Such a mandate would require very careful consideration as we have
already witnessed the situation in Libya. When the approved mandate was
later interpreted by our Western partners in their own way and in fact
by their activity, it went beyond this mandate,” Gatilov said.
“We are ready to consider such an option but we should know exactly
what kind of mission we are talking about. At the moment we have contradictory
information, it is not clear whether it will be a mission or peacekeeping
forces,” he added.
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