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    WEST PREVENTED UN SECURITY COUNCIL FROM CONDEMNING ACTIONS OF SYRIAN MILITANTS IN KASAB

    The Voice of Russia
    April 4 2014

    Western countries at the UN Security Council did not allow Russia
    to secure a reaction to the Syrian militants' actions in the city
    of Kasab, inhabited by ethnic Armenians, as well as to the shooting
    on the port of Latakia by armed groups, the shooting that led to a
    suspension of the removal of chemical weapons from the country, an
    official at the Russian Permanent Mission at the UN told the Russian
    news agenyc TASS on Thursday.

    "The Elements for the Press, suggested by us about the actions of
    militants in Kasab and the shelling of Latakia, did not find support
    with Western colleagues at the UN Security Council," the Russian
    Mission official said.

    The Russian-prepared draft Elements for the Press condemn "the latest
    attacks by Syrian opposition groups, among them those connected to
    al-Qaeda, on the city of Kasab populated by Syrian Armenians", the
    official said.

    Earlier on Thursday, Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Permanent Representative
    at the UN, expressed hope that it would be possible to fix the Elements
    for the Press, which are not an official document of the UN Security
    Council and are read out by the UN Security Council President.

    In so doing, the diplomat said the Western members of the UN Security
    Council had blocked the adoption of a statement for the press which
    condemned the mortar shelling of the port of Latakia when containers
    with chemical weapons were being loaded onto a Danish ship and a
    Norwegian ship.

    "They (the West) have taken up an utterly unambiguous and common
    attitude on both humanitarian matters, political issues, and on
    chemical demilitarization. They seek to put an additional pressure on
    the government at every opportunity and take from under any pressure
    those who are fighting against it, even if those are extremist and
    terrorist groups," the diplomat stated.

    UN sources reported on Friday that the Kasab area, which is populated
    predominantly by Syrian Armenians, "remains a zone of fighting". UN
    data have it that a large proportion of Kasab residents about 1,550
    families fled to Latakia where they are being given all the necessary
    aid.

    Churkin said almost all residents fled Kasab, with the exception of a
    large number of old people who refused to leave the city. "Luckily,
    the dreadful reports about Armenians being gunned down massively
    found no confirmation," Russa's UN Ambassador added. He said the
    developmens in Kasab would be discussed without fail at a UN SC meeting
    on humanitarian situation in Syria. The meeting is scheduled for April
    30. "We keep monitoring this (the happenings in Kasab). However, no
    separate discussion of the issue has been planned," the diplomat said.

    Meanwhile, a source at the UN Secretariat on Thursday confirmed the
    receipt of a letter from Armenia's Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan
    who called for securing a a reaction to the actions of militants
    in Kasab. The Minister also demands urgent measures from Ankara t
    oprevent penetration of Syria by terrorists from Turkish territory.

    Moscow calls for discussing attack on Syria's Kesab at UN Security
    Council

    The Russian Foreign Ministry has called for discussing an attack on
    the Armenian-populated town of Kesab in northern Syria by extremist
    groups linked to al-Qaeda at the UN Security Council, Interfax reports.

    "The UN Security Council should discuss the situation in Kesab and
    issue its principled judgment about these events," the ministry said
    in a commentary on Tuesday.

    http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_04/West-prevented-UN-Security-Council-from-condemning-actions-of-Syrian-militants-in-Kasab-5710/

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