UN’s Ban asks arms embargo to be imposed on Syria

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Syria, at the Asia Society in New York on Friday.
Ban strongly rebuked the world's "indifference and cynicism” to the civil war in Syria, which he described as a “bleed beyond its borders.” He stressed that Syria's neighbors should enforce a firm ban preventing the smuggle of weapons to Syria over land and air. He added that if divisions in the UN Security Council continue, countries should impose embargoes individually.
“It is irresponsible for foreign powers and groups to give continued military support to parties in Syria that are committing atrocities and flagrantly violating fundamental principles of human rights and international law,” said Ban.

“I recognize that an embargo would risk freezing an imbalance in place, given the extent of the government's weaponry, but the Syrian war cannot be won militarily.”

• The UN chief condemned the warring parties in the failure to set the stage for a political solution and who had "systematically blocked the tireless efforts" of his special envoys for Syria, Kofi Annan and Lakhdar Brahimi who both resigned.

Ban said the international community “desperately needs new efforts to start a serious political process for a new Syria.” He stressed the 2012 Geneva communique remains the basis for any peaceful settlement as a “roadmap for a democratic transition.”

• [>>>>>>>>> transitional governing body<<<<<<<<<<<<]

The UN chief added that the presidential election earlier this month, was a further blow to the much needed political process in Syria.
“Syrians turned against each other. Regional powers became involved. Radical groups gained a foothold. Syria today is increasingly a failed state.”
The UN has stopped releasing figures on deaths in Syria because it became “impossible to count all the bodies” in the war which has entered its fourth year.
He also condemned Syrian authorities' use of barrel bombs, and mortar attacks by opposition forces, and said that governments that hope to regain legitimacy do not massacre their own people
www.aa.com.tr/en
20/6/13
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• UN will not give up trying to restore peace to your country,' Ban tells Syrian people....

UN, 20 June 2014 – Spotlighting the worsening of the already horrifying war in Syria, “which continues to bleed beyond its borders,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today delivered a strong rebuke to the world's indifference to the bloodshed and rejected the notion that a military solution is the only way to end it, offering instead a “principled and integrated” approach that would end the violence, jumpstart political talks and sow the seeds for a better future for the Syrian people.

“We must act. All the values for which we stand, and all the reasons for which the United Nation exist are at stake, here and now, across the devastated landscape that is Syria today,” declared Mr. Ban in an impassioned address to the Asia Society, urging the international community not to abandon the people of Syria and the region to “never-ending waves of cruelty and crisis.” ..................http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48093#.U6SBjUDm7gw 
20/6/14
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