The United States and other Western powers in the UN Security Council said Tuesday no military action would be taken to end the bloodshed in Syria, dpa reported.
But US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the 15-nation panel should unite to adopt a resolution backing the Arab League's plan of action, which hopefully would end the 11-month-old conflict that has killed more than 5,400 people.
"Stand with the people of Syria or become complicit with the violence there," Clinton said. "Some members in the council think the resolution amounts to another Libya, this is a false analogy."
Clinton and envoys from Britain, France and Portugal assured other council members that the draft resolution presented to the council contains no provision for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad.
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