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| US aggression against Syria undermines UN, diplomatic solution – Russian envoy (WATCH LIVE) | US aggression against Syria undermines UN, diplomatic solution – Russian envoy (WATCH LIVE) |
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| Russia has called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the strikes that US, UK and France carried out in Syria on Saturday, naming the attack "blatant disregard of international law." | Russia has called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the strikes that US, UK and France carried out in Syria on Saturday, naming the attack "blatant disregard of international law." |
| By acting without any mandate from the UN Security Council, the US and its allies violate the norms and principles of the international law as well as undermine the authority of the UNSC, the Russian envoy to the UN said, denouncing the strikes launched by the coalition against Syria as “an aggression against a sovereign state.” | By acting without any mandate from the UN Security Council, the US and its allies violate the norms and principles of the international law as well as undermine the authority of the UNSC, the Russian envoy to the UN said, denouncing the strikes launched by the coalition against Syria as “an aggression against a sovereign state.” |
| Vassily Nebenzia also called the attack "hooliganism." He said that the two research facilities that were targeted in the strike had been inspected by OPCW who didn't find any traces of chemical weapons there. | |
| Just like a year ago, the US used a staged ‘chemical attack’ against civilians as a pretext for its strikes, Nebenzia said, adding that the Russian military experts found no trace of any chemical agent at the scene of an alleged attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma. “In a sign of cynical disdain,” a group of the western countries decided to take a military action without waiting for a group of the OPCW experts to present any results of the investigation of the perceived incident, Nebenzia said. | |
| Russia did “everything possible” to convince the US and its allies to refrain from their military plans that could destabilize not only Syria but the whole Middle East. However, Washington, London and Paris “preferred to disregard appeals to common sense,” he added. | |
| “The time for talk ended last night,” the UN envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley said, referring to the coalition airstrikes in Syria. She then added that the US, the UK and France “acted” not out of “revenge … punishment [or] a symbolic show of force but … to deter the future use of chemical weapons” by holding the Syrian government responsible for what she called “atrocities against humanity.” | |
| She also claimed that the actions of the coalition were “justified, legitimate and proportionate.” | |
| The British representative to the UN, Karen Pierce, called the coalition operation a success, claiming that “none of the British, French or US aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by the Syrian air defenses.” | |
| Pierce also called the UK actions a “humanitarian intervention” aimed at “alleviating overwhelming humanitarian suffering” of the Syrian people. | |
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