India to join Arab League to ask Assad regime in Syria to step down

New York, Fri, 24 Feb 2012 ANI

New York, Feb.24 (ANI): India will join the Arab League in demanding that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime step down to facilitate an end to the ongoing violence in that country.

 

An Indian representative has been sent to the 'Friends of Syria' meet in Tunis convened by the United States and the Arab League to determine who will succeed Assad. ussia and China, which exercised their veto power at a UNSC meeting on Syria, are boycotting the Tunis meeting.

 

The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution urging Assad to step down and condemned human rights violations in Syria. It has also issued a call to end the violence in that country.

 

India had voted in favour of the resolution, taking a U-turn from the February 4 voting on a similar measure. (ANI)

 



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