Guyana earlier this month was among several countries that abstained from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution on Syria that condemned the country’s indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in civilian areas and its widespread violations of human rights in the strife-torn country.
The United Nations General Assembly on August 3 voted overwhelmingly in support of the resolution. Gravely concerned by the escalating violence in Syria, the UN General Assembly on July 30th strongly condemned Damascus’ indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in civilian areas and its widespread violations of human rights, demanding that all parties “immediately and visibly” commit to ending a conflict that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called “a test of everything this Organization stands for.”
Media reports say that the death toll in the Middle Eastern country has since topped 25,000. When approached for comment earlier this week on Guyana’s decision to abstain from voting on the Syria resolution, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said that she would prefer to send the
