United Nations: Condemning in "strongest terms" last month's attacks on Israeli interests in Kenya, United Nations Security Council (UNSC) asked all the 191 UN members to help nab the perpetrators, sponsors and organisers, in a resolution which Syria opposed citing "double standards".

Syria was the only member of the 15-member UNSC, who voted against the resolution, but its main objection was about naming of Israel as the victim of the attacks.

Ten Kenyans and three Israelis had died in the attack in November 2002.

Stressing that his country deplores all terrorists acts, Syrian UN Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe objected to linking of Israelis in the fight against terrorism when they were "killing Palestinians daily" in the Middle East.

He accused the Council of following "double standards" by naming Israelis as victims in the resolution. In several earlier resolutions, the Council has not identified any particular nationality when such attacks occurred.

The Council, he pointed out, had identified no country or nationality in resolutions condemning the night club bombing in Bali, Indonesia in October 2002 in which about 200 people, mostly Australians, had died and the attack on Moscow theatre, which left 129 dead.

But the Western diplomats defended the naming of Israel saying the attack was intended to be only against Israelis.

The resort bombed was frequented by Israelis and missiles were fired at their airliner, they said.

Israel's deputy UN Ambassador Aaron Jacob regretted that Syria had voted against the resolution even though the Israelis, he said, were the clear target of the attack.

American UN Ambassador John Negroponte said the US has insisted on inclusion of Israelis as they were clearly the target of the attack.

The resolution, adopted by 14 votes to one, deplored al-Qaida, which had claimed the responsibility for the attack and said the Council consider it like all other acts of international terrorism, a threat to international peace and security.

It expressed its "reinforced" determination to combat all forms of terrorism.

PTI