GLOBAL: As Security Council Demands End to Syria Violence, U.N. Positions Itself for Assad ‘Reforms’
Fox News reported on 5 August that “Even as the United Nations Security Council demands that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad cease its campaign of killing civilian protesters, the U.N. bureaucracy is extending its assistance to Syria through 2012 in the hope Assad’s vague promises of political reform and “national dialogue” will eventually prove to be real . . . The new document obtained by Fox News specifically mentions the programmes of UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, and a mixed bag of development assistance programmes known as the U.N. Development Assistance Framework, or UNDAF, as continuing on an interim basis. The quiet renewal of the UNDAF programs, at a time when Western nations were tightening economic sanctions on the Assad regime in protest over the repression, was first reported by Fox News last month. UNFPA’s extension of its Syria programme was contained in documents Fox News obtained at that time. UNICEF declined to respond to questions from Fox News about its executive board document.” Read: Fox News