Hypocritical UN observer mission in Syria

The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution to send unarmed observers to Syria to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire. This mission is nothing more than an alibi for the West, the left-liberal weekly Le Nouvel Observateur writes disparagingly: "Thirty miserable civilian observers, in anticipation of the arrival of a small contingent of 'blue helmets' - they too unarmed.  They are tasked with monitoring throughout the country the fragile ceasefire, established in line with the peace plan thought up by Kofi Annan, between a desperate population and a heavily armed army. ... More concerned than perplexed, we must ask the extremely serious question: just who is the butt of this revolting and hypocritical joke, the sole aim of which is apparently to serve as an alibi for washing clean the dirty hands - as Sartre put it in his eponymous play - of our most cowardly West?"

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