MADAyuMadyan – Cameron draf resolusi UK membentangkan kepada PBB
ke atas Syria. Majlis Keselamatan PBB telah bersedia untuk perlawanan ke atas
Syria kemudian pada Rabu. Perdana Menteri Britain, David Cameron telah merangka
satu resolusi untuk membentangkan kepada PBB. Walau bagaimanapun, ia
seolah-olah pasti akan veto oleh Rusia dan mungkin China.
Britain,
seperti Amerika Syarikat, mempunyai kapal-kapal perang di Mediterranean. Ia
juga mempunyai pangkalan udara di Cyprus, 200 kilometer dari pantai Syria.
Cameron bercakap kepada Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama di telefon pada
malam Selasa, jurucakap dari pejabat beliau disahkan, berkata kedua-dua lelaki
telah bersetuju terdapat “keraguan” yang kerajaan Syria telah di sebalik
serangan kimia didakwa minggu lepas.
Kuasa-kuasa
Barat sedang mempertimbangkan tindakan ketenteraan untuk menghukum Syria
Presiden Bashar Al ‘Assad untuk serangan yang dikatakan bahawa membunuh
beratus-ratus berhampiran Damsyik. Parlimen Perancis akan bertemu untuk
membincangkan keadaan di kemudian hari Rabu.
Negara-negara
lain telah menyuarakan bantahan mereka kepada mana-mana campur tangan. Ali
Larijani, Iran parlimen speaker berkata: “Keputusan itu satu langkah yang bijak
akan menjadi huru-hara serantau dan api akan melanda negara-negara yang mudah
percaya di rantau ini.”
Iran
khuatir jika Assad telah digulingkan, dia akan digantikan oleh sama ada sekutu
Barat atau oleh radikal Islam Sunni terikat ke Arab Saudi, kedua-duanya
dianggap sebagai musuh oleh Syiah Iran. Syria juga merupakan saluran untuk
bekalan Iran Syiah Hizbullah militan di Lubnan.
Sementara
itu, laporan media Israel bahawa pegawai-pegawai Syria mengancam tindakan balas
terhadap Israel untuk mana-mana serangan Barat. Israel akan menggerakkan semua
pertahanan peluru berpandu sebagai langkah berjaga-jaga.
UK's
Cameron drafts resolution to present to UN on Syria
The UN Security Council is
set for a showdown over Syria later on Wednesday. British Prime Minister David
Cameron has drafted a resolution to present to the UN. However it seems certain
to be vetoed by Russia and probably China.
Britain,
like the US, has warships in the Mediterranean. It also has an air base on
Cyprus, 200 kilometres from the Syrian coast. Cameron spoke to US President
Barack Obama on the phone on Tuesday night, a spokesman from his office
confirmed, saying both men had agreed there was "no doubt" that the
Syrian government had been behind last week's alleged chemical attack.
Western
powers are considering military action to punish Syria's President Bashar
al-Assad for the alleged attack that killed hundreds near Damascus. The French
parliament will meet to discuss the situation later on Wednesday.
Other
countries have voiced their opposition to any intervention. Ali Larijani,
Iran's parliament speaker said: "The result of such an unwise move will be
regional chaos and the fire will engulf the credulous countries of the
region."
Iran
is concerned that if Assad were overthrown, he would be replaced by either
allies of the West or by radical Sunni Islamists tied to Saudi Arabia, both
regarded as hostile by Shi'ite Iran. Syria is also a conduit for Iranian
supplies to Shi'ite Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
Meanwhile,
Israeli media reports that Syrian officials are threatening retaliation against
Israel for any Western attack. Israel is deploying all of its missile defences
as a precaution.
