‘Syria escalation deepens West-East rift’

“If the Western countries do as Ambassador Rice has threatened to do that we will go to our partners and find a solution indicating that they were going to up the ante in Syria, this is going to create a major conflict between Russia and China on the one hand and the US and the Western forces on the other hand,” Bill Jones from the Executive Intelligence Review in Washington told Press TV on Sunday.

Russia and China on Thursday for the third time vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council draft resolution against Syria, which called for new sanctions against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.

Following the veto, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice threatened that Washington and its partners would look to partnerships and actions outside the auspices of the UN council.

“One of the things that is going on in the United Nations is that they (Western states) want to change the concept of sovereignty to something the ‘right to protect’. It’s a new doctrine that Susan Rice and others are pushing, which would allow the United Nations or UN-backed operations to eliminate a government that has shown itself no longer able to protect its own people,” Jones said.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has strongly warned against any unilateral action on Syria that fails to get the authorization of the UN Security Council.

“Any attempt to act without the [UN] Security Council’s approval will be inefficient and will undermine the authority of this international organization,” Putin said.

Syria has been the scene of deadly unrest since mid-March, 2011 and many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

Four top Syrian officials were killed in a terrorist bombing at the headquarters of the Syrian National Security in the capital on Wednesday.

DB/MA

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