GENEVA / SYRIA VOTE

The United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN's top human rights forum, overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday condemning the involvement of foreign fighters in Syria's civil war, singling out the pro-regime forces sent across the border by Lebanon's Hezbollah. CH UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:34
• Production Date: 14 June 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR; UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - UNHRC
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: UNITED STATES; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: U130614f

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STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA VOTE
TRT: 1:34
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

DATELINE 14 JUNE 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations, Geneva

14 JUNE 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, Human Rights Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, United States Ambassador to the UN in Geneva:
"We demand that the Syrian authorities cooperate fully with the commission of inquiry, including by granting it immediate, full and unfettered access throughout the Syrian Arab Republic an responding promptly to its communications and requests."
4. Med shot, delegation of Qatar
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui, Syrian Ambassador to Geneva: "Consequences for the efforts being undertaken at the international level to put an end to violence in Syria, Syria rejects this draft resolution. Syria calls upon all member states to withhold their support for this draft resolution because it sends a message in support of extremism and terrorism. It is a way of encouraging confessional divisions in Syrian society, a society."
6. Pan right, voting board
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Remigiusz Achilles Henczel, President of the Human Rights Council: "The results of the recorded votes are as follows. 37 in favour, 1 against, 9 abstentions. Draft proposal L29 order revised is therefore adopted."
8. Pan left, Council president

Storyline

The United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN's top human rights forum, overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday condemning the involvement of foreign fighters in Syria's civil war, singling out the pro-regime forces sent across the border by Lebanon's Hezbollah.

The 47-member council passed the US-backed resolution by a vote of 37 to 1, with nine abstentions and just one member, Venezuela, against.

The text said that the council "condemns the intervention of all foreign combatants in the Syrian Arab Republic, including those fighting on behalf of the regime and most recently Hezbollah".

It said that the involvement of foreign forces in the conflict "further exacerbates the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation, which has a serious negative impact on the region".

The resolution condemned "in the strongest terms all massacres taking place in the Syrian Arab Republic and stresses the need to hold those responsible to account", as well as "all violence, especially against civilians, irrespective of where it comes from, including terrorist acts and acts of violence that may foment sectarian tensions".