Click to Russia for his support to the regime of Syria

Western powers clashed with Russia on the UN Security Council Tuesday in their attempt to adopt a resolution demanding the resignation of the ruling Syrian Bashar al - Asad and the end of what United States called "Kingdom of terror" in Syria.

The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, he led the Western onslaught on the meeting in New York, supported by the leadership of the Arab League and the British and French Foreign Ministers.

"We all know that change is coming in Syria." "Despite relentless tactics, the reign of terror of the Asad regime will end and the Syria people will be able to choose their own destiny," Clinton said during the debate.

Civil Cuántios die
"the question for us is how many innocent civilians more will die before that the country will be able to move forward towards the kind of future that it deserves," he added.

Meanwhile, French Minister Alain Juppé u000aIt urged the Council to leave his "shocking silence", and the first Qatari Minister, Hamed ben Jassem Al - Thani, speaking on behalf of the Arab League to ask the UN to stop the "killing machine" of al - Asad.

The draft resolution of the UN, was agreed by Western powers and the Arab League, seeks Assad delivers power and cease repression that has left more than 5,400 dead in the past ten months, according to groups of rights humans.

But Russia, of Syria and ally with right of veto in the Security Council, reiterated its opposition and stated that the UN should not interfere in the "internal" conflict SIRIUS.

"There are possibly a last chance to break the spiral of violence that devastates with Syria and its people," said the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, adding however that the Security Council "may not impose parameters for an internal agreement". Earlier, Russian Minister Sergei u000aLavrov noted that the "regime change" is not the "profession" of his country, and his Deputy Minister Guennadi Gatilov had warned that the draft UN resolution would "pave the way for a civil war".

Asad's regime has stepped up repression to try to crush the last of the rebellions of the Arab world, the collapse of authoritarian regimes in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

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