An exceptional international session on the invasion of Ukraine ... an opportunity to serve the Syrian issue - Enab Baladi

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution to hold the United Nations General Assembly an exceptional session to discuss developments in Ukraine, and to vote on a draft resolution condemning the "Russian invasion" today, Monday, February 28.

France's representative of the United Nations suggested that the draft resolution will be voted at the General Assembly later in the week and not during today's session.

The Council adopted Resolution No. 2623, which calls for an exceptional session of the General Assembly, with the support of 11 countries and the opposition of Russia and the absence of three countries from voting: China, India and the UAE.

It is not possible in such decisions to use any of the member states (veto) against it, as it relates to procedural matters related to an exceptional meeting of the General Assembly..

This is the first time that the Security Council has adopted such a decades ago.

This vote comes after the UN Security Council failed, on February 25, to adopt a decision formulated by America and Albania, condemning Russia and its military operations, and demands its forces to immediately withdraw and retract the recognition"Vito".

An opportunity for Syria

This path has already been tried to push towards it in 2016, regarding what was happening in the city of Aleppo, calling for "an immediate intervention to stop the historical massacre instead of denunciation and condemnation", but these efforts were in vain..

According to what was written by the former Syrian diplomat Danny Al -Baaj, on his Facebook page, the failure of efforts in such international paths is due to two reasons: “The first is due to the opposition of the United States of America for such a measure, and its fear that it will be used as a precedent against it or against Israel, and the secondThe technical and political weakness of the opposition scenery, and those who work in the corridors of the United Nations are their representatives, where they do not have the appropriate responses from the precedents and procedural rules that respond to the American arguments rejecting such a move..

According to what the Diplomat Al -Baaj said, in an interview with Enab Baladi, the United Nations internal system allows the UN Security Council to be taken to take a decision on a certain issue that affects international peace and security because of the right of "veto", that the case be referred to the United Nations General Assembly.

Al -Baaj explained that in this exceptional case, the powers of the General Assembly are the same powers of the Security Council, and therefore the General Assembly can make procedural decisions away from submitting usual recommendations, without the United Nations Charter authorized by the necessary authority to impose these recommendations..

The General Assembly, established under the fourth chapter of the United Nations Charter, is the United Nations General Authority, that is, the main device for discussions and voting.All member states of the General Assembly are represented by the principle of global democracy, according to which all countries are equal and respect the equal rights of all peoples..Therefore, each country has one voice.

This referral is carried out according to the principle of “Union for Peace”, according to what Al -Baaj said, and it is to give the role of the United Nations General Assembly as one of the pillars of the collective security system because of the inability of the Security Council in turn to preserve international peace and security in accordance with the Charter, due to the arbitrariness in the use of the right of “veto“.

“In the event that the situation in Ukraine is referred to the General Assembly under this principle, we Syrians must re -try to refer the situation in Syria to the General Assembly within the same principle,” according to what was recommended by Al -Baaj.

There are two possibilities to refer the Syrian file to the General Assembly within this principle, according to what Al -Baaj explained.Coordination with the Georgians can also be to strengthen the situation in this framework, so that the language language includes all the areas occupied by the Russians or their agents.

As for the second possibility, it includes waiting for the decision to be issued, and then building it as a precedent, but not to demand a Russian withdrawal from Syria, but to refer the file of Syria to the International Criminal Court, within a decision of the General Assembly and not the Security Council, and to avoid the Russian "veto".

"This requires work from now to mobilize support and pressure on European countries to adopt such an initiative without launching, and talking clearly that Syrian blood is not less important than Ukrainian," according to what Al -Baaj expressed through his Facebook page..

Historical precedents

The use of this principle appeared for the first time at the outbreak of the Korean crisis in 1950, the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, and when the "Warsaw" alliance intervened in Hungary in 1958.

The legal basis for the “Union for Peace” decision is provided by the provisions of the Charter, as it was based on the text of Article No. 24 of the Charter that would authorize the Security Council the main responsibility, not the only one for preserving international peace and security..

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