NEW YORK
UN is trying to push through a resolution to force the Syrian goverment to stop blocking aid getting to the more than nine million Syrians who urgently need it.
A draft resolution by the UN Human Rights Committee demanding the Syrian government deliver aid to needy areas and waive bureaucratic impediments was accepted in the assembly’s committee by a vote of 123 – 13 with 46 abstentions - Russia and China voted against it .
The resolution also mentioned the chemical attack in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus under rebel control which killed nearly 1800 people in August. The UN stress the attack was carried out "professionally from the regime-ruling area to the opponent’s area."
The resolution included lots of warning against human rights violation and also "condemns all violence, irrespective of where it comes from, and calls upon all parties to immediately put an end to all forms of violence, including terrorist acts and acts of violence or intimidation that may foment sectarian tensions, and to comply strictly with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law."
The resolution is expected to be in General Assembly as well but GA resolutions do not have binding like United Nations Security Council.
Nearly 40 percent of the population are in need of urgent humanitarian aid says the UN Human Rights Committee.
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