Millions of Syrians sign anti-US petition
AFP
Date: 12-30-05
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Around 3.2 million Syrians have signed a petition denouncing "US pressure" on their country as well as two UN reports that implicated Damascus in Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder.
The petition rejected "everything that is mentioned in the two reports" because they lack "objectivity and impartiality in order to serve the United States and Israel's greed, which threatens peace and international security."
It also calls on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to "work to prevent certain superpowers from using the United Nations for their own aims in the world."
The text, a copy of which was received by AFP, condemns the assassination of Hariri, who was killed by a Beirut bomb blast in February, and calls on Annan to stay "on the side of truth and justice".
Sixteen judges and lawyers delivered the petition and the signatures -- collected in 500 books -- to the UN envoy to Syria, Ali Zaatari, in an event Thursday coinciding with a several hundred-strong anti-US demonstration.
There was no indication of how the signatures were collected.
The UN inquiry into Hariri's murder found converging evidence of the involvement of Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services in two reports issued in October and December.
Syria has vigorously denied any hand in the killing.
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