UN condemns Syria

The UN Security Council has condemned Syria “in the strongest terms” for its deadly shelling of Turkey, while UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged restraint along the neighbors’ tinder-box border. Turkey had demanded strong Security Council action after Syrian fire killed 5 Turkish women and children on October 3, prompting retaliatory Turkish strikes against a military position inside Syria that reportedly killed several soldiers. After hours of haggling between Turkey’s Western allies on the Security Council and longtime Syria backer Russia, the top UN body issued its statement, which although toughly worded was a rung down from a formal resolution. The text also urged “restraint” and Guatemala’s ambassador to the United Nations, the current council president, said this applied to both Syria and Turkey.

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