The United Nations said on Friday that he can not accept Russia's proposal to replace the Golan Heights peacekeepers from Austria, since the agreement between Israel and Syria in the UN Security Council permanent members bar observer mission.
Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations the Russian proposal, on Friday, the Austrian President Vladimir Putin said it would recall its troops from the United Nations oversight force, because the worsening fighting in Syria.
Austria, which accounts for about 380 peacekeepers 1,000-member UN peacekeeping force monitoring four decade-long ceasefire between Syria and Israel, said they would quit after a violent conflict, the Syrian government forces and anti-government armed border between on.
Russia is a longtime ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces fighting to overthrow him in the civil war rebels arms supplier.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said, to accept the offer from Russia, with the United States, Britain, France and China is a permanent veto-wielding members of the 15-country Council of the United Nations at the moment, this is impossible.
"We appreciate that the Russian Federation has given consideration to provide troops in the Golan," he told reporters.
"However, the Agreement on Disengagement" and its protocols, which is between Syria and Israel, a permanent member of the Security Council is not allowed to participate in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, "Nesirky added, known as the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force peacekeeping troops .
Security Council Chairman, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said, after a special meeting of the Council on the crisis in UNDOF, the troops should remain in place, even if it temporarily reduced.
United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations requirements in force in other countries, the Philippines and India, they will increase their troop contributions, but also looking at the possibility of new national troops, Lyle Grant said.
, "He said:" At the same time (they) tried to encourage them to leave the theater and the Austrians slowing discourage any other troop withdrawal. "Mr. Su He was talking about back to increase its authorized number 1250."
"Times have changed."
A Council diplomat told Reuters, UN peacekeeping chief, Mr. HervéLadsous condition of anonymity made a clear and behind closed doors, allowing Russian peacekeepers may be too complicated, legally, he would rather find other troop-contributing countries to the UN Security Council briefing .
Fiji has said it would send troops to replace the Croatian contingent has been pulled out. Japanese troops have been withdrawn because of violence.
Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, said his country was well aware of the document signed by forty years ago, the restrictions, which is why Putin said that this would depend on whether the countries in the region - namely Syria and Israel - the United Nations, wants Russia garrison.
"We believe that times have changed," Churkin told reporters, modify cafes Security Council permanent members, from UNDOF agreement, which is theoretically possible.
() Cold War (Arab - Israeli) war in 1973 at the height of the context of the document signed 39 years ago, "he said." "Now the situation is completely different UNDOF seems to be in dire straits, so we basically provides rescue UNDOF. "
He said it had asked the United Nations legal experts to see if there is new resolution will need to be brought to the Russian army's proposal, because the original agreement, the establishment of UNDOF and did not let UN Security Council permanent members to contribute.
Austrians left the monitoring force is the latest blow. In addition to increasing its activities in the battle area, there have been a number of recent incidents, the Syrian rebels detained UNDOF monitors.
Since 1974, UNDOF's mandate is to oversee the running between the Syrian and Israeli armies of Mount Hermon Yarmouk River and the Jordan border Lebanese border 45 miles of the land, a narrow "Quarantine." Force helps to maintain the relative stability of the region, the UN diplomat said.
Russia has been trying along with the Western powers, to bring the warring sides in the conflict in Syria has lasted more than two years of talks on a solution. A planned peace conference in Geneva has been postponed at least until July.
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