Germany's UN ambassador Peter Wittig said the situation in Syria "just needed action."
Amid the political unrest in Syria, a fresh draft resolution has been circulated in the UN Security Council, calling for an immediate end to the government crackdown on civilians as it asked President Bashar al-Assad to transfer his powers to his deputy.
The draft introduced on Friday offers that if Syria does not comply with the provisions of the resolution within 15 days, the UNSC can "adopt further measures, in consultation with the League of Arab States," against the Syrian regime.
The draft also "fully supports" League of Arab States' initiative to facilitate a political transition leading to a democratic, plural political system, which will see President Bashar al-Assad delegating his "full authority to his Deputy to fully cooperate with the national unity government in order to empower it to perform its duties in the transitional period."
The 15-member UNSC has however remained deeply divided over the action that should be taken against the Syrian regime, even as more than 5000 people have been killed in the uprising that began almost a year ago.
According to UNICEF, 384 children have been killed during the fighting.
Germany's UN ambassador Peter Wittig said the situation in Syria "just needed action."
"I appealed to the members of the Council that we should recover the unity of the Council and not fall back into acrimonious discussions of the past, climb out of our trenches and reunite, because we owe it to the Syrian people to send out—rather sooner than later—a strong endorsement of the Arab League decisions," he said on Friday.
Wittig said consultations on the draft resolution will begin next week, and "I think it is possible that we find an agreement."
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