West pushes UN Syria vote, despite Russian... JPost - Middle East
A resolution in the UN, supported by the U.S., France, Germany, Britain, Portugal and Morocco, has been proposed that would deploy unarmed UN observers to monitor the ceasefire in Syria. This is a resolution passed after Assad failed to comply with the ceasefire drafted on Thursday. Russia initially expressed interest in supporting the resolution until they saw the depth and detail the U.S. put into it. Supporters hope that the outside presence will put an otherwise absent pressure on the regime given it has blocked out any outside observers since mobilization. Russia fears this will lead to a complete regime change paralleling the happenings in Libya. It would be problematic for Russia to lose the anti-western Assad regime. The level of violence that Assad has continued to inflict upon his people has stripped him of any remaining legitimacy. His inability to comply with a ceasefire has left the western actors no choice but to intervene. Of all the outcomes discussed in the Hussein article, Russia would probably hope for a shift in leadership. If observers are dispatched into Syria everyone will gain further insight and a bigger picture of what has been happening in the country for roughly the past year.
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