Erdoğan urges reforms for UN Security Council

PanARMENIAN.Net - The international community is practically giving a green light to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to kill hundreds of people every day in his country, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday, Oct 13.

“So what is the source of this attitude? If we have to wait for what one or two of the permanent members of the UN Security Council will say, then the consequences for Syria will be very dangerous,” Erdoğan told participants at the Istanbul World Forum, which brought together politicians, academics, business executives, experts, NGO leaders, artists, authors and media personalities from around the world, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

“The UN, which was an onlooker to the massacres of hundreds of thousands of people in the Balkans 20 years ago, is having the same kind of blindness in Syria today. What kind of explanation can be made for the injustice and the inability that is being displayed here?” he said.

“While tens of hundreds of people are being killed every day in Syria, as long there are still those who think about what gain they can get from the Syrian situation, the face of humanity will continue to get red,” Erdoğan said.

Erdoğan said there was “injustice in many international organizations, including the UN Security Council.” “Nobody can claim that the UN Security Council is built upon a fair structure. We have left the world to the mercy of five permanent members – whatever they say happens. The UN has to be reformed in line with justice,” Erdoğan said.