UAE Calls for Arab League Meeting to Discuss Houla Massacre
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan called on Saturday for an urgent Arab League meeting to discuss reports of a massacre in the central Syrian town of Houla.
The "massacre shows the failure of Arab and international efforts to stop the violence against civilians in Syria," said Sheikh Abdullah.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, of which the UAE is a member, urged the international community to "assume its responsibilities" to end the bloodshed.
U.N. head of mission Major General Robert Mood called what happened in Houla a "brutal tragedy."
"This morning U.N. military and civilian observers went to Houla and counted more than 32 children and over 60 adults killed," Mood told reporters in Damascus Saturday. A monitoring group said 114 people had been killed in Houla.
Source: Agence France Presse
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