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From left: Kofi Annan, Special Envoy on Syria;
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Nassir Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser,
President of the sixty-sixth session of the
General Assembly;
Nabil el-Araby, Secretary General of the
Arab League;
and Mutlaq M. Al-Qahtani, Al-Nasser’s
Chef de Cabinet;
meet before a joint briefing to the General
Assembly on Syria.
7 June 2012 (Click on picture)
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النص الرسمي لقرار المجلس الوزاري العربي بدعوة مجلس الأمن الى التصرف بموجب الفصل السابع لحماية المدنيين في سورية. أنقر هنا.
Letter dated 4 June 2012from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Observer Mission of the League of Arab States to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council
I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter addressed to you
from H.E. Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General of the League of Arab States,
regarding resolution No. 7507 concerning the situation in Syria, dated 2 June
2012, which was adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States at its
extraordinary session held at the ministerial level in Doha (see annex).
Pursuant to Article 54 of the Charter of the United Nations, I
should be grateful if you would arrange for the present letter and its annex to
be circulated as a document of the Security Council.
(Signed) Mohamed El Kafrawi
Chargé d’affaires
Annex to the letter dated 4 June 2012 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the
Permanent Observer Mission of the League of Arab States to the United Nations
addressed to the President of the Security Council
I have the honour to
transmit herewith resolution No. 7507, dated 2 June 2012, adopted by the
Council of the League of Arab States at the ministerial level, concerning
developments in the situation in Syria. The resolution calls upon the Security
Council to take forthwith all the necessary measures to protect Syrian
civilians and impose a complete cessation of all acts of violence and crimes
committed against the Syrian people. The international observers in Syria must
be granted all the powers necessary to enable them to undertake the mandate
that has been delegated to them, and the plan of the Joint Special Envoy of the
United Nations and the League of Arab States must be implemented immediately
and in full, within a specific time frame.
I hope that you will take the action that you deem to be
appropriate with regard to the circulation to Security Council member States of
the resolution which is annexed hereto, and that it may be considered an
official document of the Security Council.
Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.
(Signed) Nabil Elaraby
Secretary General
Enclosure
Developments in the situation in Syria
The Council of the League of Arab States, meeting at the
ministerial level, at an extraordinary session that was held in Doha on 2 June
2012,
Having considered the
memorandum of the General Secretariat,
Being guided by resolution 554, which was adopted by the
twenty-third League of Arab States summit, which was held in Baghdad on 29
March 2012,
Recalling the resolutions it has adopted and the statements it has
issued in that regard, the most recent being resolution No. 7503, adopted at
the extraordinary session of 26 April 2012,
Recalling also the statements issued in that regard by the Arab
Ministerial Council on the Situation in Syria, the most recent of which was
issued on 17 April 2012,
Recalling further the relevant United Nations resolutions, the
most recent of which were Security Council resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043
(2012),
Condemning the Hula massacre in the Syrian governorate of Homs, in
which scores of innocent civilians, including children and women, lost their
lives,
Taking note of the statement issued by the Security Council on 27
May 2012 on attacks in Syria, which stated that such outrageous use of force
against civilian population constitutes a violation of applicable international
law and of the commitments of the Syrian Government; and of the resolution in
that regard that was adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 June 2012,
Confirming its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity
and territorial integrity of Syria,
Decides:
1. To condemn the violations and crimes that continue to be
committed against Syrian civilians by Syrian Government regular and irregular,
or Shabiha, forces, in flagrant breach of that Government’s undertaking to
implement immediately and in full the plan of the Joint Special Envoy and
Security Council resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012).
2. To stress the need to empower the Human Rights Council
Commission of Inquiry to perform the mandate it was given on 1 June 2012 to
conduct an inquiry in order to establish who had been responsible for planning,
perpetrating and covering up the massacre in Hula and bring them to justice for
their gross violations of international humanitarian law.
3. To underline the need for compliance with the following
resolutions of the Council of the League: No. 7444 of 22 January 2012 and No.
7438 of 12 November 2011, which called for the Arab States to recall their
ambassadors from Damascus: the latter resolution was considered binding on all
States. To underline also paragraph 1 (d) of resolution No. 7446 of 12 February
2012, in which it was decided to halt all forms of diplomatic cooperation with
the representatives of the Syrian regime in international organizations and
conferences and in States, and to call upon all States that are concerned for
the Syrian people to keep pace with Arab measures in that regard.
4. To call upon the Security Council to take forthwith all the
necessary measures to protect Syrian civilians and impose a complete cessation
of the bloodshed and all acts of violence and crimes committed against the
Syrian people. The international observers in Syria must be granted all the
powers necessary to enable them to provide civilians with protection and end
the gross violations and crimes that are being committed against them.
5. To demand that the Syrian Government renounces its policy of
using the security solution, in order to permit the immediate and complete
cessation of all acts of violence and killing; guarantees the right of peaceful
demonstration, with a view to realizing the demands of the Syrian people for
reform and change; and undertakes to implement, immediately and in full, all
the Council resolutions concerning the Syrian crisis and, in particular, No.
7444 of 22 January 2012, No. 7446 of 12 February 2012, and No. 554, which was
adopted in Baghdad on 29 March by the twenty-third summit of the League of Arab
States; the relevant United Nations General Assembly resolutions and, in
particular, 66/253; and all six points of the plan of the Joint Special Envoy
of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Mr. Kofi Annan.
6. To call upon all the relevant parties to cooperate closely with
the Joint Special Envoy in the furtherance of his duties; to stress the need
for the Government of Syria to comply with the nature and terms of reference of
the mandate of the Envoy and his team, given that he is the Joint Special Envoy
of the United Nations and the League of Arab States; and to condemn the
Government’s refusal to receive Mr. Nasser al-Qudwa, the Deputy Special Envoy.
7. To request the management of the Arab satellite Arabsat and the
Egyptian satellite company Nilesat to take the measures necessary to halt the
transmission of Syrian official and other satellite channels.
8. To call upon all the opposition parties to overlook their
differences, undertake their national responsibilities and respond immediately
to the efforts exerted by the General Secretariat with a view to convening, as
expeditiously as possible, a meeting at League Headquarters in Cairo that will
include all those Syrian parties; and to request the Secretary General to
continue his consultations and communications in that regard, in cooperation
and coordination with the Special Envoy and in consultation with the relevant
parties, with the aim of addressing the Syrian crisis and beginning the
political process that will determine the steps to be taken during the interim
period, including the formulation of ideas on the facilitation of the peaceful
transition of authority.
9. To request the Government of Syria to facilitate the entry of
humanitarian aid, underlining the need to ensure that such aid reaches all
those who need it, without obstruction or delay, and to find a mechanism for
coordinating the efforts of the United Nations and its organizations and
agencies with those of other organizations and donor States and with the
relevant neighbouring States. To request the General Secretariat, the
ministerial councils, the funds and donor States to coordinate their endeavours
in order to enable those States to continue to provide the services necessary
to relieve the Syrian people in their territory.
10. To call upon the Security Council to shoulder its
responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations and take the measures
necessary to ensure that all six points of the plan of the Joint Special Envoy,
Mr. Kofi Annan, is implemented forthwith and in full, within a specific time
frame. Recourse should be had to Chapter VII of the Charter and its provisions
regarding complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail,
sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the
severance of diplomatic relations.
11. To request the Secretary General to transmit the present
resolution to the Security Council and the General Assembly and other relevant
parties.
12. To remain seized of the
matter.
Resolution No. 7507, extraordinary session of 2 June 2012
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Paragraph 10:
– With regard to the present resolution, the People’s Democratic Republic of
Algeria reiterates
the position which was set out in the resolution that was adopted by the
extraordinary meeting of the Council of the League of Arab States at the
ministerial level on 26 April 2012. – The Republic of Iraq has reservations as
to the content of this paragraph and, in particular, to
the phrase “Recourse should be had to Chapter VII of the Charter”.
– The Lebanese Republic affirms its position, which requires it to disassociate
itself from the resolutions concerning
developments in Syria.
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