The Human Rights Council, Egypt calls on the Government to protect citizens after the Suez incident

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At United Nations-sponsored talks to reach an agreement to regulate the arms trade in the world

Diplomats said the faltering talks sponsored by the United Nations to reach an agreement to regulate the arms trade in the world because of the dispute over Palestinian participation.

The Group was last week asked the Arabic exclude EU discussions at United Nations Headquarters if the Palestinians could not participate.

AFP quoted diplomats as saying that Israel threatened to boycott the Conference if the Palestinians recognized as a sovereign State as they ask.

Enjoy both the Palestinians and the European Union as an observer at the United Nations, the European Union, however, has a broader rights.

And several European countries called for a Convention to regulate the arms trade in the world, justified its call that the poor management of this trade and smuggling of illicit arms represents a growing threat to mankind.

The talks are expected to face great difficulties because of serious reservations and objections among States that deal with arms trade either exported or imported.

It was scheduled for the 192 members of the United Nations negotiations until July 27 to reorganize the trade in conventional arms.

And conduct such talks for the first time to regulate trade in the market up to 70 billion dollars the CBOE replaced.

The Treaty is expected to shift that may fall outside of these talks on trade in conventional weapons without transfers that could be used against civilian populations or ltagage conflict, as well as to develop specific criteria for arms trade.

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Washington presented a draft resolution to the Human Rights Council condemned "flagrant violations" in Syria

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The report condemned what he considered to be "flagrant violations"

The United States Tuesday presented a draft resolution to the UN Human Rights Council condemned "flagrant violations" of human rights in Syria.

Washington expressed in the draft resolution deplored "alarming" consequences that can result from not implementing UN Envoy Kofi Annan.

The draft resolution also called for an international investigation into events occurring in Syria.

It is expected to vote on the draft resolution Friday, the last day of the summer session of the Council.

The draft resolution commends the results of the Geneva meeting last Saturday, which set the principles of transition in Syria include the formation of the Government has Ministers of the current Government and opposition alike.

The draft resolution condemned the "flagrant violations and widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Syria".

The members of the Human Rights Council's 47 States demanded by an independent international investigation into Syria.

And commissioned an independent international Commission in August to investigate such violations, but he was not allowed to go to Syria.

"Torture policy"

Detention centres in Homs by former detainees

On a related level, accused the Organization of human rights (Human Rights Watch) the Syrian Government to exercise "the policy of torture on a large scale".

It said, in a report, it met with more than 200 former detainee, and managed to fix 27 detention centre, at least, via Syria.

Report elaborated on ways of torture, disappearances and arbitrary arrests.

The report says that its system amount to crimes against humanity. "

The organization wants to represent the Syrian authorities before the International Criminal Court, but correspondents say that any such move will prevent her Russia.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, "be taken altkorirali it clear warning".

Haig said "those responsible for systematic human rights violations and large-scale should not deceive themselves, we and our partners, we will do what must be done to ensure their appearance before justice."

The report is based is entitled "islands of torture"-certificates more than 200 prisoners, including women and children, describing the cases of ill-treatment and torture of detainees since March of 2011.

The human rights organization said that all those interviewed spoke about the situation of overcrowding in detention facilities, and lack of food, while others said that they were forced either to sign, and either put their mark on confessions admitting that they took part in protests against the Government.

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