Date
April 18, 2013
Title
Top UN Official Says Situation in Syria ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’, Calls on Security Council to Take Actions Needed to End “Brutal Conflict” (Press Release), SC/10981
Original Source
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2013/sc10981.doc.htm
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Note
The UN Security Council discussed the Syrian situation, again. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said starkly "the world has abandoned Syrians." More accurately, in its obsession with demonizing Israel, the world abandoned Syrians decades ago. Until recently, the UN human rights system never adopted any criticism of Syria. Amos also told the Council that "everyone" was looking to them "to guarantee peace & security of the people of the world" - a job description the Council hasn't performed ever. UN officials managed to focus in on the plight of Palestinian refugees, in particular, in Syria. Ironic, since the UN never complained that the Syrian government deliberately kept the Palestinians as refugees and permanently denied them citizenship. The Syrian government also took the floor to complain that the treatment of Syrians in Israeli hospitals was "illegal and immoral." More pathological anti-Semitism at UN Headquarters.