Syria resolution at UN

Aftyer vetoing a sanctions resolution at the Un Russia is drafting a dialogue first resolution, possibly with the aim of reducing conflict and protecting religious minorities as the parliament there has an opposition group to President Assad.

In Egypt the leadership of teh Coptic church has said that dialogue over breakaway factions will succeed and that hence by implication a secular consitutuion for the state that respects all faiths will be supported so as to give the Arab Spring genuine democracy.