UAE Calls for Arab League Meeting to Discuss Houla Massacre
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan called on Saturday for an urgent Arab League meeting to discuss reports of a massacre in the central Syrian town of Houla.
The "massacre shows the failure of Arab and international efforts to stop the violence against civilians in Syria," said Sheikh Abdullah.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, of which the UAE is a member, urged the international community to "assume its responsibilities" to end the bloodshed.
U.N. head of mission Major General Robert Mood called what happened in Houla a "brutal tragedy."
"This morning U.N. military and civilian observers went to Houla and counted more than 32 children and over 60 adults killed," Mood told reporters in Damascus Saturday. A monitoring group said 114 people had been killed in Houla.
27 May 2012, 13:07
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UAE should first have an urgent Arab League meeting to discuss reports of torture in Bahrein. Arab League: This club of talkers who give the Arab people a bad name in the world for never having done anything else but talk about the wrong issues.
27 May 2012, 13:30
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Wow the arabs are having a meeting again? Hurray, syria is now liberated, just like these same leaders in the past liberated Palestine with their meetings...... no wait i forgot. With friends like these, Syria (whether regime or the opressed people) do not need enemies. Worthless pieces of dirt, that is what the arab leaders and their meetings are.
