Channel 4 News
| Mar 20, 2013
The Syrian ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja'afari has asked the United Nations to establish a "technical mission" to look into allegations that chemical weapons were used by the Syrian opposition in an attack near Aleppo this week. In his statement,...
Associated Press
| Jul 19, 2012
Russia and China again vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council resolution Thursday aimed at pressuring President Bashar al-Assad's government to end the escalating 16-month conflict in Syria.
Al Jazeera English
| Jun 7, 2012
Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, has admitted that his peace plan is failing and that the country's future will consist of "brutal suppression, massacres, sectarian violence and even all-out civil war" if it continu...
Telegraph.co.uk
| May 27, 2012
Speaking as the UN Security Council condemned Syria's government for the massacre of at least 108 people in the town of Houla, the UK's ambassador to the United Nations, Mark Lyall-Grant, said "There are no circumstances whatsoever that justify th...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 2, 2012
Kofi Annan, the joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, has said the Assad regime has agreed to start implementing a peace plan by April 10. But, even while Syria's government was committing to remove its troops from towns and cities, there were repo...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 6, 2012
The UN has again failed to condemn the Syrian government for its crackdown on protesters, after Russia and China blocked a Security Council resolution. Has diplomacy reached the end of the road? Guests Dimitry Babich, Sameer Al Taqi, and Shadi Ham...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 31, 2012
Foreign ministers meet at the UN to call on Security Council to act on Syria, but opposition remains from Syrian ally, Russia.
![Russia and China veto Western-backed UN resolution on Syria for the third time [New TV, Lebanon]](/images/image_cache/base-7345000/7345255/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=814850836fffad85a9adfe78b8411b72 "Bashar Ja'afari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, addresses the Council following the vote, July 19, 2012: UN Photo/JC McIlwaine")
![Anti-Assad protests continue unabated in Syria despite violence [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-5995000/5995545/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=29cfbca58753d65340f844cb70cf4a9e)