Britain has successfully prevented a vote on the Russian resolution to extend the United Nations Supervision Mission In Syria (UNSMIS) for a further 90 days. However yesterday (20/7/12) the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) did pass British authored resolution 2059(2012) which extends the UNSMIS mandate for a further 30 days. Britain is spinning this as being for a final 30 days which isn't strictly speaking true. Although the text of 2059(2012) is still under official embargo I gather it contains phrasing that expresses a willingness to further extend the mandate only if there is there is a reduction in violence and the use of heavy weapons ceases. However this is far from binding so it's looks like Britain still has a lot of work to do if it wants to stop UNSMIS going round pointing out that things like al-Houla and Tremseh weren't actually massacres carried out by the Syrian government or even massacres.
I'll try and do a more full round up of events in Syria tomorrow (22/7/12) but I'm going to take the rest of the day off. The actual plan was to take yesterday off but that plan went wrong before it started
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