Secretary Clinton said a statement Wednesday by the United Nations Security Council was a first step. The statement condemned the “widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the Syrian authorities.” It urged restraint on both sides in Syria.
The government has blamed much of the violence on what it calls terrorists and militants. The official news agency SANA reported Friday that unidentified gunmen had killed two security officers.
The United States and European countries had pressed the Security Council for a resolution. A resolution is stronger than the presidential statement it approved. But Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa blocked those efforts. They feared that a resolution could lead to a situation similar to the international military action in Libya.
The United States dismissed a promise this week by the Syrian president to permit reforms. These include letting opposition parties operate for the first time.
Syria has long had a single-party system led by the Ba'ath party of the Assad family.
In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak appeared in a hospital bed in a cage in a courtroom on Wednesday. The former president denied the charges against him. These include ordering the killing of protesters during the eighteen days of political unrest that forced him out. More than eight hundred people were killed.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is seen through wire mesh in the courtroom for his trial at the Police Academy in Cairo, August third.
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