Russland og Kina la ned veto mot en ny resolusjon i Sikkerhetsrådet som ba president Bashar al-Assad om å gå av. Kun Kina og Russland stemte mot.

Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Saturday condemning the Syrian government’s crackdown on protests for the second time. At the meeting in Manhattan, 13 countries voted for the resolution proposed by European and Arab nations that gave strong support to an Arab League plan to end the crackdown and call for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside. But Russia and China both vetoed the measure.

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