UN Chief Ban Ki-moon demanded on Friday that the UN Security Council act on Syrian crisis, saying that any failure in this issue would be considered as a “license to kill.”

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon demanded on Friday that

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 the UN Security Council act on Syrian crisis, saying that any failure in this issue would be considered as a “license to kill.”

"I call upon all member States to take collective and decisive action to immediately and fully stop the tragedy unfolding in Syria. Inaction becomes a license for further massacres," Ban said in statement aimed at the council.

Ban joined with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to express outrage at the massacre of the Syrian village of Treimsa and to make an "urgent call" for pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. Annan said Security Council resolutions had been "flouted".

Ban also expressed outrage at the "horrific" killings in Treimsa on Thursday, which he said cast "serious doubt on Assad's commitment to an international peace plan.”

The UN leader strongly condemned "the indiscriminate use of heavy artillery and shelling of populated areas, including by firing from helicopters."