{"id":356245,"date":"2018-04-11T15:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-rivaling-us-russia-resolutions-fail-at-unsc\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T15:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:09:18","slug":"presstv-rivaling-us-russia-resolutions-fail-at-unsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-rivaling-us-russia-resolutions-fail-at-unsc\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Rivaling US, Russia resolutions fail at UNSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Rivaling US and Russia drafted UNSC resolutions aimed at creating a new inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria have both failed to garner votes at the council.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the Tuesday session, seven members voted against the Russian-drafted resolution and two abstained, shortly after the US-drafted resolution was vetoed by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The US drafted resolution proposed to launch a new inquiry to find the sources of the chemical attacks, while the rivaling Russian resolution called for the launching of a probe which would require the UNSC to attribute responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History will record that, on this day, Russia chose protecting a monster over the lives of the Syrian people,&#8221; said US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States is again trying to mislead the international community and is taking yet one more step toward confrontation,&#8221; said Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that the provocation step has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/10\/558091\/russia-syria-unsc-veto\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivaling US and Russia drafted UNSC resolutions aimed at creating a new inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria have both failed to garner votes at the council. During the Tuesday session, seven members voted against the Russian-drafted resolution and two abstained, shortly after the US-drafted resolution was vetoed by Russia. The US drafted resolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}