UN Security Council Will Meet to Discuss Violence in Syria
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The United Nations Security Council prepared to meet to discuss a German call for a “clear condemnation” of Syria after the security forces killed more than 150 people in a crackdown on anti-government protests.
The army’s attacks on Hama, Syria’s fourth-largest city, demonstrate a “new quality” to the government’s clampdown, highlighting President Bashar al-Assad’s “machinery of repression,” German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told reporters in Berlin today. The council will meet at 5 p.m. in New York, the German mission to the UN said.