After 18 months, and over 20,000 dead, there's still no end in sight for the conflict Syria. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday and urged the international community to stay out of Syrian affairs. "This is blatant interference in the domestic affairs of Syria and the unity of its people and its sovereignty," he said. "The Syrian people and only the Syrian people are authorized to choose their own future and the form of their state."
Just hours after Minister al-Moallem addressed the General Assembly, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned a meeting of high-level U.N. officers about "dire consequences," should the Syrian government use chemical weapons against the rebels. Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, explains the U.N.'s strategy going forward.
We also talk with Safa Sankari, a Syrian-American, whose family is currently residing in Aleppo.
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Mother Teresa told us in her 1979 Nobel Peace Prize award speech that 'The greatest threat to world peace is abortion'. The Democratic Party has come to the point where it has adopted abortion as a plank in their platform, and our president gives a flat out endorsement of this evil procedure. Not much time will pass before the military conflict, which the world is poised for, will occur, as we see now in Syria.
"40 years I endured that wicked generation." Psalms.
Maybe the istraelis are just waiting for assad to succeed in commiting genocide. Then that would mean more land for tiny israel!It is outrageous that no one-not america,arabs countries or NATO have intervened to stop this maass holocuast taking place.Unbelievable and truly evil as we watch this on CNN for over a year now. Even after we called the regime part of the axis of evil yet when people rise up to topple it -we parrot the assad line that maybe they're terrorists! Diabolical!
I have a fantasy of Israel going into Syria. Israel has got to be concerned about chemical weapons. Would the world see Israel as liberators for Syrians... Would other Arab nations help Israel? or just be button lipped.
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