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UNSC 'tired, unfit for purpose': Amnesty
Thursday May 24, 2012 03:04:56 PM,
RIA Novosti
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London: The UN Security Council is suffering from a failure of leadership
and looks "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose",
human rights organisation Amnesty International has said in a
report.
Analysing the international community's reaction to popular
uprisings in the Arab world, particularly in Syria, the report
said the Security Council's failure to take action to stop Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on protestors has left the
council looking "redundant as a guardian of global peace".
"There is a clear and compelling case for the situation in Syria
to be referred to the International Criminal Court for
investigation of crimes against humanity," said Amnesty
International's secretary general Salil Shetty.
"The determination of some UN Security Council members to shield
Syria at any cost leaves accountability for these crimes elusive
and is a betrayal of the Syrian people," he said.
Russia and China, two of the UN Security Council's five permanent
members, have twice vetoed UN resolutions on Syria over what
Moscow called a pro-rebel bias.
According to UN estimates, more than 90,000 people have been
killed in Syria since the beginning of the uprising against Assad
in March 2011. Syrian authorities say they are fighting terrorist
gangs affiliated with the Al Qaeda.
Amnesty also highlighted the global arms trade and called for
nations to agree on a global arms trade treaty to be negotiated at
an international conference in New York in July.
The group said the Security Council's five permanent members
account for some 70 percent of the global arms trade.
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