China is giving a last call to Bashar al-Assad, the person in charge of the actual Syrian presidency. The Chinese country is losing its patiente with Syria, since in their opinion it is urgent to speed up reforms and stop the conflict. Foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said China did not "want to see more bloodshed, conflict and casualties".
Russia supports this idea as well and it has made a similiar appeal, asking Mister Assad for either implement reforms or go.Both countries, China and Russia, have irritiated the West after using their veto at the UN Security Council resolution made last week condemning Syria for the campaign against protesters. After this, and other situations in which vetoes have been used, the European have proposed the idea of avoiding them.
After reading this article, two questions have come to my head: first of all, is China qualified of asking another country to stop the massacres that are taking place when it is one of the countries that probably violates most human rights? In my opinion, before asking other states to do anything, China should examine and look through its own agenda.
The second idea that has come to my mind after the reading is about the UN veto debate. Should it be avoided? abolished? is it fair to be handled by states that won a war some decades ago?
Syria probably needs to take into consideration these ''advices'', but it is not the only country that needs some reflection : before getting into international conflicts and urgent matter of this field, the inner problems are as well important.
Unfortunately, we live in a world full of hypocresy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15257380
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, Cristina. The fact that only 5 countries have the power of veto is a very controversial subject because the distribution of power is not balanced at all. For example, South America does not have any representing country in the Security Council with that power of veto. It is however, very difficult to change this situation since the 5 countries would need to approve any decision and it is clear that they wouldn't accept any resolution if it didn't benefit them. Syria as you said, needs to take some of these advices but so does China. It is true that we live in a world full of hypocresy where it is easier to tell others what they do wrong instead of trying to correct and admit our own mistakes first.
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