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I HATE your opinion of KSA, but admire how you make a white heron out of a crow and vice versa with your debating skills and how you argue your case like a pro. Too bad you’re anti arab/wahabi while I’m pro arab/wahabi.
I really respect that - appreciate it.
And now to bidnes:
Arbi friends say repression in Syria is bad, but repression in Arabia is good, Arbis say Syria burning is good Arabia burning is bad - Arbi friends also claim not to know the meaning of the word hypocrisy ---- But lets recognize a very important element - the Arab spring is not about democracy, it is about dignity -- Arbis say no problem in Arabia, well, they are well fed and well paid and hopeful, so what if the government is a religious tyranny, Syria on the other hand is a Republic (of fear), it has a rich history of civilization and urban life, but the economy is down the tubes -- so the difference is that in Arabia you are pushed around and handed money, whereas in Syria you are pushed around and they want money from you -- Conscience
11/08/2011
Syria`s Ambassador at UN: UK riots are only 1% of Syria`s
(Dp-news) UN- United Nations Security Council met on Wednesday to discuss the deteriorating situation in Syria. But Syria's ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari, back in New York from meetings with President al-Assad government officials in Damascus, has sparked diplomatic furor by comparing the unrest in his country to the riots in Britain, adding that anti-government groups had killed 500 Syrian security forces.
ABC news reported that UN Security Council has met to discuss the crisis. Britain's representative Philip Parham says tougher measures against Damascus are on the cards “So we need the Syrian regime to heed the calls that have come now from the Security Council and from the region. And you saw the presidential statement which the Security Council issued last week which gave a clear, a strong and a united message to the Syrian regime about what they needed to do.”
Parham added “And if they continue nevertheless along their current path and they fail to heed those calls then we believe the council must look at taking further steps to keep up the pressure on the Syrian regime to get things onto a better track.”
For his part, Syria's UN ambassador Bashar Ja'afari has caused a diplomatic stir of his own. He claims anti-government troops have killed 500 Syrian security forces and he's drawn a comparison with the unrest in Britain.
Ja'afari said ” It's very indicative and informative to hear the prime minister of England describing the riots and the rioters in England as by using the terms gangs while they don't allow us to use the same term for the armed groups and the terrorist groups in my country. This is hypocrisy.”
Bashar Ja'afari says the country's sovereignty "is a red line that must not be crossed".
"We know our commitments, our obligations but at the same time we know what our rights are. And our rights do not stem from any political pressure. They stem from our own political will," he said after sessions at the United Nations Security Council in New York.
He criticised Western nations for accepting the British government's denunciation of rioters as members of gangs, while denouncing Syria for its crackdown on anti-government elements.
"They don't allow us to use the same term for the armed groups and the terrorist groups in my country. This is hypocrisy, this is arrogance," he said.
"They tried to manipulate the truth and to hide important facts and elements related to the so-called situation in Syria," said Ja'afari.
While some Western envoys at the UN are speaking with one voice Russia's UN ambassador says sanctions won't help end the crackdown that human rights groups say has claimed at least 1,700 civilians since the uprising against Syria's regime erupted in March, according to Human Rights groups and International bodies
