Resolutionen anmoder FN om at stille sig i spidsen for en proces, der får den syriske regering og oppositionspartier til forhandlingsbordet i januar med henblik på en våbenhvile og en overgangsregering.
Det kontroversielle punkt om hvilken rolle Syriens præsident, Bashar al-Assad, skal spille er ikke nævnt i den endelige tekst. Rusland er Assads stærkeste internationale allierede.
“As the first resolution to focus on the political path to resolving the crisis, this marks a very important step on which we must build,” UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, told the Security Council, according to the UN News Service Friday.
“We see a country in ruins, millions of its people scattered across the world, and a whirlwind of radicalism and sectarianism that challenges regional and global security,” he said.
The Council called for a Syrian-led political process facilitated by the UN to establish within six months “credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance,” setting a schedule for drafting a new constitution, with free and fair elections to be held within 18 months under UN supervision with all Syrians, including members of the diaspora (i udlandet), eligible to vote.
Våbenhvile og forhandlinger hører uløseligt sammen
It acknowledged the close linkage between a ceasefire and a parallel political process, with the former to come into effect as soon as the sides have begun initial steps towards a political transition under UN auspices.
Emphasizing the need for a ceasefire monitoring and verification mechanism, the Council asked Mr. Ban to report back to it on options with a month, and called on Member States to provide “expertise and in-kind contributions” to support such a mechanism.
The resolution also called on the parties to immediately allow rapid and safe access throughout Syria for immediate humanitarian aid to reach all people in need, and to release arbitrarily detained persons, particularly women and children.
Finally, it demanded that all parties immediately cease attacks against civilians.
This would include medical facilities and personnel and the indiscriminate use of weapons, including shelling and aerial bombardment.
It stressed the “critical need to build conditions for the safe and voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their home areas.”
