Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria



Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution threatening action against Syria's deadly crackdown on protests, dealing a blow to US and European efforts to isolate President Bashar al-Assad regime.

Amid new deaths in Syria and new threats of individual sanctions, the veto sparked the outrage of European nations, which proposed the resolution, and the United States, which said the council had "utterly failed to address an urgent moral challenge."

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