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Woody Allen and Nobel winners demand Syria resolution
Woody Allen and Nobel winners demand Syria resolution
By blade
Created 23/06/2011 - 21:59
Oscar-winning film director Woody Allen on Thursday joined two Nobel prize
winners in a petition demanding that the UN Security Council condemn the Syrian
government crackdown on opposition protests, organizers said Thursday.
Allen, Nobel literature prize winners Wole Soyinka of Nigeria and Orhan Pamuk
of Turkey and leading writers such as Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco and
Bernard-Henri Levy are all calling for a UN resolution.
An open letter on Syria was started by Levy on his Regle du Jeu (Rules of the
Game) web site. The letter says demonstrators in Syria have "faced a death
machine aware of the heavy price they would pay."
The signatories say it would be "tragic and morally unacceptable" for the
Security Council to do nothing.
Britain, France, Germany and Portugal have proposed a resolution condemning the
crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad's government. Russia and China are
strongly opposed and Brazil, South Africa and India have raised strong
objections.
* AFP
* People
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