The Donald Ramotar administration has defended its abstention on a vote on one of the UN General Assembly resolutions regarding the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement on Friday said that as some local reporting has illustrated, the situation is evidently complex with multiple interests being prosecuted by various actors, both internal and external. The United Nations General Assembly on August 3, voted overwhelmingly in support of the resolution. Gravely concerned by the escalating violence in Syria, the UN General Assembly on July 30 strongly condemned Damascus’ indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in civilian areas and its widespread violations of human rights, demanding that all parties “immediately and visibly” commit to ending a conflict that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called “a test of everything this organisation stands for”.
