UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned there is a growing threat of full-scale civil war erupting in Syria.
It has been over a year now government forces and armed activists are fighting with each other.
“The Syrian people are bleeding,” Ban told reporters after addressing the UN Security Council behind closed doors. “They are angry. They want peace and dignity. Above all, they all want action.”
“The danger of a civil war is imminent and real,” he said, adding that “terrorists are exploiting the chaos,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
Earlier in Istanbul, Ban said: “Annan has expressed his concerns that we may have reached a tipping point in Syria.”The UN chief dismissed talk of a clash of civilisations between East and West over Syria.
“We hear a great deal about the so-called clash of civilisations, the supposed rift between predominantly Muslim and Western societies,” he said.
“This is not what is going on in Syria. There, it is the old story of a tyranny seeking to hold power.
“And in seeking to hold power, the regime threatens to exacerbate tensions among Syria’s diverse people, much as we saw in the former Yugoslavia two decades ago.”
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