MUNICH
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called on the United Nations to provide humanitarian aid to regions under siege in Syria.
Speaking at a panel discussion titled "What Season is next for the Middle East?" on Sunday, Davutoglu said, "Hundred of thousands of people have died in Syria and there is not any single UN Security Council resolution."
"The international system is failing, like in Bosnia and Rwanda," he added.
U.N. peacekeepers have been accused of declaring safe areas for Muslims in Bosnia, but doing nothing to secure them - Serbs eventually slaughtering thousands of them, while in Rwanda, peacekeepers are alleged to have stood by as Hutu slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsi.
Davutoglu emphasized that there should be an urgent U.N. resolution for humanitarian aid access and called on the U.N. to adopt Geneva I as a U.N. Security Council resolution to prevent President Bashar Assad's regime from escaping the formation of a transition government.
Davutoglu also suggested that Assad's regime was not being honest about its chemical weapons store and should clarify how many they still had.
Syria has agreed to eliminate its arsenal to stop the United States and its allies from punishing Assad for a chemical attack last August with bombing raids.
The regime has since given up less than 5 percent, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested this week that shipments had been unnecessarily delayed.
"Chemical weapons are posing danger as much as nuclear weapons and their use constitutes a crime against humanity. We all, all leaders carry the responsibility," Davutoglu said Sunday.
He also said that Turkish troops opened fire on a convoy of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria last week.
"We didn't want to intervene in any situation in Syria, but the threat came to us," he stressed.
"Bashar Assad's regime is responsible," he added.
"A crime was committed. There's no doubt about it," he said in reference to the use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces.
"The perpetrators of this crime should be prosecuted," he added.
Sunday’s panel discussion was held on the sidelines of the 50th Munich Security Conference.
More than 100,000 people have been killed and around nine million displaced since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war.
Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq are hosting two million people fleeing the fighting.
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