The U.N. General Assembly has voted to approve a measure condemning human rights violations and backing an Arab League plan to stop the killings in Syria. The resolution also calls on President Bashar Assad to resign. Syria’s ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari, speaking through a UN interpreter, tried to forestall those results.
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