“We demand the UN Security Council refer the six-point (Annan plan) to Chapter VII so that the international community could assume responsibilities,” said the Qatari premier during the Meeting of Arab Ministerial Committee on Syria in the capital, Doha, on Saturday.
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter allows the UN Security Council to take necessary measures, including military force, to “maintain or restore international peace and security.”
UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan also attended the Doha meeting on Saturday.
“We request Mr. Annan to set a time frame for his mission (in Syria) because it is unacceptable that massacres and bloodshed continue while the mission is ongoing indefinitely,” Sheikh Jassim stated.
Kofi Annan said in an address to the Arab League that the “specter of an all-out war with a worrying sectarian dimension grows by the day” in Syria.
“The situation is complex and it takes everyone involved in the conflict to act responsibly if the violence is to stop.”
The Arab League meeting in Qatar was held a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow opposed some Western governments who had called for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“Why are we thinking that if we push the current (Syrian) leadership from power, then tomorrow general wellbeing will begin there,” Putin said during a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande in Paris on June 1.
“What is happening in Libya? What is happening in Iraq? Has it become safer there? We propose to act in an accurate, balanced manner at least in Syria,” the Russian president stated.
The Syrian government has time and again blamed foreign-sponsored “saboteurs and terrorists” for the unrest that began in March 2011.
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