The Commission on Human Rights UN meets on Friday for a special session on Syria at the request of the United States who want a resolution on violence committed during the repression is adopted.
This special meeting of the 47 member states of the Geneva-based organization was convened on Wednesday by the United States.Fifteen countries have signed the application session, including France, Britain, Spain, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico, Zambia and Senegal.
This session comes as the Security Council failed Wednesday to agree on a statement condemning the repression in Syria and that representatives of 27 countries of the European Union (EU) are to meet Friday Brussels to discuss possible sanctions against Damascus.
The Council meeting should start at 11:00 (0900).
"We expect members of the Council of Human Rights they call the government of Syria to fulfill its responsibility to protect its people and stop these attacks," noted the U.S. ambassador to the Council, Eileen Donahoe.
"The international community has been shocked by the hundreds of civilians killed in peaceful political demonstrations last week," she added.
The crackdown on protests against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria killed at least 107 dead between Friday and Sunday, as the High Commission of the United Nations for Human Rights, which requested the initiation of an investigation into these events.
The UN media release a first draft resolution prepared by the countries that have requested the holding of the session, asking "urgent dispatch of an independent commission of inquiry and internationally to investigate alleged human rights violations rights in Syria. "
The Commission on Human Rights meets in special sessions rarely but they generally lead to the adoption of a joint resolution, as on February 25 concerning Libya.
For NGOs, this attention on Syria could jeopardize the recent nomination to the Council of Syrian human rights.
In early March, Damascus has in fact formally launched his candidacy for one of the available seats in the Council of Human Rights, based in Geneva and consists of 47 members.
