{"id":46858,"date":"2011-11-20T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46858"},"modified":"2023-04-08T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T08:20:24","slug":"russia-warships-to-enter-syria-waters-in-bid-to-stem-foreign-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/11\/20\/russia-warships-to-enter-syria-waters-in-bid-to-stem-foreign-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warships to enter Syria waters in bid to stem foreign intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Syrian official says Damascus agrees &#8216;in principle&#8217; to allow entrance of Arab League observer mission; 22-member body proposed sending hundreds of observers to the to help end the bloodshed.<\/h2>\n<p>By\u00a0Jack Khoury and\u00a0Haaretz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating that the move represented a clear message to the West that Moscow would resist any foreign intervention in the country&#8217;s civil unrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, a Syrian official said Damascus has agreed &#8220;in principle&#8221; to allow an Arab League observer mission into the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46859\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46859\" title=\"Bashar-Medvedev\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bashar-Medvedev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, May 10, 2010. Photo by: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the official said Friday that Syria was still studying the details. The official asked not to be named because the issue is so sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab League suspended Syria earlier this week over its deadly crackdown on an eight-month-old uprising. The 22-member body has proposed sending hundreds of observers to the country to try to help end the bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>The report came a day after a draft resolution backed by Arab and European countries and the United States was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, seeking to condemn human rights violations in the on-going violence in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia were among Arab states that joined Germany, Britain, and France to sponsor the draft submitted to the assembly&#8217;s human rights committee. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. would sign on as a co-sponsor of the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The draft demanded an end to violence, respect of human rights and implementation by Damascus of a plan of action of the Arab League.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as clashes escalated in Syria and after Russia and China used their veto in October to block a Security Council resolution that would have condemned the Syrian government of President Bashir for the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Such a veto is not applicable in the 193-nation assembly, which will consider the issue after the human rights committee reports back to it.<\/p>\n<p>The UN says more than 3,500 people have been killed since unrest erupted in spring against Assad.<\/p>\n<p>www.haaretz.com,\u00a018.11.11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian official says Damascus agrees &#8216;in principle&#8217; to allow entrance of Arab League observer mission; 22-member body proposed sending hundreds of observers to the to help end the bloodshed. By\u00a0Jack Khoury and\u00a0Haaretz Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating that the move represented a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,922],"tags":[5983,3883],"class_list":["post-46858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria","category-world","tag-arab-spring","tag-bashar-al-assad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}