The UN General Assembly voted 137 to 12 to approve a resolution calling for an immediate halt to Assad's brutal response to protests.
"It sent a clear signal of the international community's condemnation of the Syrian regime's actions and intention to hold to account those responsible for the ongoing atrocities," Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement.
"The message is unambiguous. The violence must stop immediately," added the Foreign Office release.
Hague said he would endeavor to find ways of backing the Arab League at the Friends of Syria meeting next week and urged UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a special representative to work alongside them.
"President Assad and the Syrian regime must heed the call of the international community and allow a peaceful political transition to resolve the crisis," he added.
"President Assad and those around him should be under no doubt that we will continue to support the Syrian people in their aspiration for a peaceful political transition in Syria."
China, Russia and Iran were among the nations that opposed the text put forward by Egypt and other Arab states that condemned "widespread and systematic violations of human rights" in Syria.
Seventeen UN member states abstained from voting on the resolution, which came just days after Russia and China joined forces to use their veto power to derail a similar text in the UN Security Council.
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@ET Reader The UN allows Muslim counties a say in world affairs only if they toe the western line. Syria wouldn't have been brought before the UN if it had been ally of the west like Bahrain.
How UN is active when approving a resolution against a muslim country but total inactive when against isreal.
Unlike a resolution of the Security Council, the one adopted by the General Assembly is non-binding. Nevertheless the "world parliament" has sent a strong message of international support to the Syrian people and demonstrated that Bashar al-Assad is becoming ever more isolated. It doesn't change the situation on the ground. Syria's ambassador to the U.N. said the yes vote was a message of support to the "extremists and terrorists" his regime declares it is fighting. So we will see more bloodshed in Syria as Assad's forces are far too strong for the Free Syrian Army to beat.
If Saddam, Qadhafi, Shah Iran, Hosni Mubarak & other dictators_ even the Super Powers couldn't rule by force, what is he thinking? How long can Iran help him? But then what will be the fate of Hezbollah then? What will happen to the Iranian dream of rule from Sinkiang to Morroco. Lot's of questions here need to be answered. Damn "the nuclear ambition" kills it!