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Moscow blocks the UN Security Council

Москва блокирует работу Совета Безопасности ООНTheir “Bitches” sons do not passМосква блокирует работу Совета Безопасности ООНRussia supported its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a meeting of the UN Security Council on 30 August in new York. Permanent representative of Russia to the UN Vitaly Churkin refused to recognize the facts stated in the report of the United Nations and the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW)

After a meeting of the UN security Council, he rejected claims the US and other countries condemning the chemical attacks and punish the use of chemical weapons. The report contained no names, no specifics, no fingerprints,” said Churkin, in connection with which “there is nothing in the report against whom to impose sanctions”. At the same time, he acknowledged that “chlorine likely used”.

The Syrian representative also rejected the accusations against his government and said that the Commission has no “material evidence”.

International Human rights organization Human Righs Watch harshly criticized the intervention of Russia. According to human rights activists, Moscow complicates the work of the UN Security Council and blocks the transfer of the case to the international criminal court in the Hague. This, in particular, said the expert organization to the UN-Louis Charbonneau. “The UN security Council will save its own value, if not take a clear position against proven use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government,” he told the AFP news Agency.

For its part, Britain and France felt the guilt of the Syrian government to use chemical weapons and demanded sanctions against responsible for himataki. Permanent representatives of these countries accused the Syrian government of President Assad in war crimes. USA, at the end of the report, demanded quick reaction of the UN security Council.

On the eve of French President Francois Hollande urged Russia to support the initiative of Paris and take on the level of the UN security Council resolution condemning a chemical attack the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

On 24 August the Commission of inquiry of the UN decided that the Syrian government and the terrorists of the “Islamic state”, during the fighting in 2014 and 2015 used chemical weapons

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