Syria Appeals to UN: Stop ‘Any Aggression’

After the US announced its punitive attack against Syrian military last weekend, Syria has asked the UN to prevent “any aggression” against them. President Barack Obama builds his case against Syria believing with evidence that the middle east state is responsible for the chemical-weapons attack last month.

US military action will be put to a vote in Congress, which ends its summer recess on September 9, giving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad time to prepare the ground for any assault and try to rally international support against the use of force, Aljazeera.net reported.

The Aljazeera report added the Syrian state news agency SANA on Monday said that Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s envoy to the UN, in a letter to Ban Ki-moon, the UN chief, and Maria Cristina Perceval, the Security Council president, called on “the UN secretary-general to shoulder his responsibilities for preventing any aggression on Syria and pushing forward reaching a political solution to the crisis in Syria”.

Jaafari called on the Security Council to “maintain its role as a safety valve to prevent the absurd use of force out of the frame of international legitimacy”. Jaafari also said the US should “play its role, as a peace sponsor and as a partner to Russia in the preparation for the international conference on Syria and not as a state that uses force against whoever opposes its policies”, Aljazeera.net said.

Syria has denied using chemical weapons, sarin, and accused rebel groups who have been fighting for more than two years to topple Assad, of using the banned weapons, the report said.

At least 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, which started in March 2011 with protests against four decades of Assad family rule.

Russia, however, is not convinced by chemical-attack evidence presented by the United States, Aljazeera.net reported.