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The US has vetoed a draft text providing for extending protection to Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The text proposed by Kuwait garnered 10 votes in favor, but the US vetoed the text, which it said failed to even mention Hamas, Read more
Russia has imposed its veto against a UK-drafted and US-backed Security Council resolution to condemn Iran over allegations it was violating international sanctions and fueling an insurgency in Yemen. The blocked resolution was based on a report by UN experts Read more
The US was left alone waving its veto in the face of the 14 members of the Security Council who voted in favor of a resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The Read more
Russia has vetoed a Japanese-drafted UN Security Council resolution on renewing a joint mechanism to investigate who is behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria. It is the third veto of an extension for the chemical weapons investigators in the past Read more
Western-backed resolution for a seven-day ceasefire in embattled Aleppo has been vetoed by Russia and China on Monday at the UN Security Council with the Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin raising concerns that it could be used by Read more
Ahead of the submission of a Palestinian-drafted resolution to the 15-member Security Council calling for Israeli occupation of Palestinian land to end by November 2016, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with U.S Secretary of State John Kerry in Read more
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has scolded Russia and advised it to avoid distractions as the case of Syria worsens. In a statement designed as a response to Russia’s envoy for human rights in its foreign ministry, Konstantin Dolgov, the Read more
The newly formed international alliance dubbed “Friends of Syria Group” will meet in Tunisia on February 24 to look into ways of helping Syrian opposition and stepping up pressure on the autocratic regime of Bachar Al Assad to halt the Read more