The Daily Monitoring Report – Thursday – 05-07-2012
July 5th, 2012
- Yesterday, 70 people were martyred by the Assad troops’ gunfire, mostly in Rif Dimashq, Daraa and Idlib, amid growing defections of the regular army’s high-ranking officers.(2)
International
- The bodies of two pilots, who had been reported missing after Syrian forces downed a Turkish military jet on June 22, have been found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Turkish armed forces leadership has said.(2)(3)(4)(6)(7)
- Russia should realize the Syrian crisis is out of control and it is pointless to back President Bashar al-Assad while Western and Arab states seek ways to end the crisis, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday. “Russia must understand that the situation in Syria is leading towards a collapse, to terrible and grave violence,” Hague told a news conference. “Even if Assad had a free hand to commit as many crimes as he wished, he is not able to control the situation in Syria. So there is no point anybody standing by the Assad regime.” He added.(1)(2)(3)(4)
- Both British Foreign Secretary William Hague and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the Annan-brokered agreement, which says a transitional governing body should be formed on the basis of mutual consent, implied Assad would not be part of any transition.(1)(2)
- A senior British diplomat said Britain and France would seek support at Friday’s meeting for passing a U.N. Security Council resolution to ensure the Geneva accord is put into place if there was no progress on Annan’s plan, but insisted a U.N. Security Council resolution would not mean a mandate for military action. The diplomat gave no timeline for recourse to the council. “The ambition for us would be to get the Security Council to support a Chapter VII resolution, for that to have clear measures in there aimed at increasing pressure on the regime,” the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. “Putting the Annan plan into international law and considering coercive non-military measures such as economic sanctions and travel bans under article 41, which specifically rules out the use of force, is what we’re talking about at this stage,” the diplomat added, speaking in London.(1)(2)(3)
- The chief UN observer Robert Mood said that Al-Assad’s authorities had told him that they abide by Annan’s plan. On the other hand, Mood criticized the international community for talking too much in luxurious settings and doing too little on the ground to stop the violence. “There is this feeling that it’s too much talk in nice hotels, in nice meetings and too little action to move forward and stop the violence,” said Major General Robert Mood, who attended the Geneva meeting. “The urgency of stopping the violence is maybe the most important issue for everyone involved” in the conflict, he added.(2)(4)(6)
- Western countries, primarily the U.S., are taking active steps to persuade Russia to grant political asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but Moscow is so far refusing to do so, Kommersant reported on Wednesday citing a Russian diplomatic source.(4)
- Navi Pillay, UN Human Rights Commissioner, warned against arming the parties in Syria, holding both parties responsible for any more serious violations of human rights.(7)
- In the event of “a foreign attack, we discussed with our brothers (in the Syrian regime), with (Hezbollah chief) Hassan Nasrallah and our brothers in Iran, we will be part of this battle,” said Ahmad Jibril of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.(7)
Sources
| 1 | Asharq Al-Awsat |
| 2 | Aljazeera net |
| 3 | Reuters |
| 4 | AFP |
| 5 | AP |
| 6 | Guardian |
| 7 | Telegraph |
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