The United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Syria Crisis (2011-2017)

In 2011, the United Nations Security Council put Syria situation in its agenda. Having its roots in unstable domestic social, political and economic problems, the situation, after seven years, is still remain in the council’s agenda. Meanwhile, the council’s members has drafted several resolution to put an end to the crisis. Notwithstanding, due to conflict of interests among the council’s permanent members and subsequently, the lack of consensus on certain issues, the efforts for adopting the proposed drafts were blocked. Although, by the end of 2017, the council was unable to find a definitive solution for the crisis, it made significant progress through adoption of twenty two resolutions on various critical issues in particular peacekeeping operations, humanitarian access, chemical weapons, terrorism, sovereignty and accountability. Thus, in light of the extraordinary importance of Syrian crisis as well as the Security Council’s approach toward the case, this article put the council’s resolutions in to account in order to evaluate the evaluate the councils work in Syrian crisis.