Syria 'calamity' a threat to world peace: Ban

Syria 'calamity' a threat to world peace: Ban

UNITED NATIONS - Agence France-Presse
Syria calamity a threat to world peace: Ban

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addresses the 67th UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 25, 2012. AFP photo

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon said today that the Syrian civil war is a "calamity" that now threatens world peace and demands action by the divided UN Security Council.

Ban told the opening of the UN General Assembly that the Syria conflict "is a regional calamity with global ramifications." He added that "brutal" rights abuses were being committed by President Bashar al-Assad's government.

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