{"id":10834,"date":"2012-07-16T15:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2012-07-16T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:14:33","slug":"russia-blocks-un-council-statement-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10834","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks UN Council statement on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia blocks UN Council statement on Syria<\/strong><br \/>\n16 July, 2012 &#8211; Agence France Presse &#8211; The Dialy Star<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Monday blocked a proposed UN Security Council statement on mass killings in the Syrian village of Treimsa, diplomats said amid worsening deadlock over international action on the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Russian envoys opposed the statement saying it was not clear what had happened, council diplomats told AFP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>A draft statement had been proposed saying that the attack on the village on Thursday was a Syrian government &#8220;violation&#8221; of its commitments to UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan not to use heavy weapons. But Russia put a hold on its release.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people were killed in Treimsa by President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s troops and pro-government militias, according to Syrian activists. The government has denied involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has called for Major General Robert Mood, the head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) to brief the council on the killings.<\/p>\n<p>UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said UNSMIS was still trying to check the facts of what happened in Treimsa, but added that it was &#8220;quite apparent that something terrible happened there and that heavy weaponry was used.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Western diplomats said they would now probably stop pressing for the statement so the 15-nation council can concentrate on negotiating a formal resolution on the future of the UN mission in Syria which has to be agreed by Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, France, United States, Germany and Portugal want a resolution that includes the threat of sanctions if Assad does not halt the use of heavy weapons. Russia rejects the threat of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2012\/Jul-16\/180822-russia-blocks-un-council-statement-on-syria.ashx#axzz20p8ibWhr\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D10834&amp;text=Russia+blocks+UN+Council+statement+on+Syria&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia blocks UN Council statement on Syria 16 July, 2012 &#8211; Agence France Presse &#8211; The Dialy Star UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Monday blocked a proposed UN Security Council statement on mass killings in the Syrian village of Treimsa, diplomats said amid worsening deadlock over international action on the conflict. Russian envoys opposed the statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10834#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2446],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}