The UN mission and the OPCW to investigate cases of use of chemical weapons in Syria without a mandate.
Russia in the UN Security Council has blocked 16 November, the us draft resolution on the extension of the work of joint UN and the Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The mandate of the investigation Commission expires on the night of November 17.
Earlier, Russia introduced its own draft resolution, but withdrew it on November 16 after other members of the UN security Council voted against it voted immediately after the consideration of the American document, which was supported by 11 members of the UN security Council.
Since the war began in Syria in 2011, Russia for the tenth time vetoed a resolution for this country in the UN Security Council.
Except the Russian Federation against the draft submitted by the United States, voted Bolivia, and China and Egypt abstained.
We will remind, on October 26 the UN security Council had been circulated report of the joint OPCW and UN to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
It said that the use of sarin on 4 April in the Syrian city of Khan shaykhun the responsibility of the Assad regime, and after the attack in the village of Um-Hosh in September 2016 with the use of sulfur mustard to the responsible terrorist organization “Islamic state”.
Russia appreciated the report as “amateurish and based on assumptions and selective use of facts.” Earlier, on 24 October, Russia also vetoed in the UN security Council on the draft resolution, the United States, involving the extension of the mandate to investigate cases of chemical weapons in Syria.
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