U.n. Push for Syria Rights Team Blocked: Official | Trifter

U.n. Push for Syria Rights Team Blocked: Official | Trifter

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Syria has repeatedly blocked United Nations requests to admit human rights monitors, said a U.N. official who stressed that regional bodies like the Arab League are key to reaching a long-term political answer to the crisis.

U.N. humanitarian affairs chief Valerie Amos said the organization had created clear it absolutely was “extremely concerned” regarding reports of human rights violations, but that the Syrian government had denied entry to rights investigators.

“The requests have repeatedly been created for a personality’s rights mission into Syria. It hasn’t however happened but they need been created repeatedly,” Amos told Reuters in an interview.

She added that a U.N. mission entered Syria last month but with only limited access.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe earlier on Sunday called the U.N.’s failure to agree on a resolution against President Bashar al-Assad’s administration a ’scandal’, but Amos said mediating the situation was not the U.N.’s responsibility alone.

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