Syria is calling on the United Nations to prevent “any aggression on Syria” following President Barack Obama’s decision to use force in response to a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last month, Reuters reported Monday.
Syrian Ambassador to the U.N. Bashar Ja’afari wrote in a letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and President of the Security Council Maria Perceval that the U.N. Security Council should “maintain its role as a safety valve to prevent the absurd use of force out of the frame of international legitimacy,” according to state news agency SANA.
Ja’afari also wrote that the U.S. should “play its role, as a peace sponsor and as a partner to Russia in the preparation for the international conference on Syria and not as a state that uses force against whoever opposes its policies,” as quoted by Reuters.
