Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin at the security Council meeting of the organization explained the blocking of the draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, Syria, and answered the objections of zampolpreda Michelle the Season, accusing it of trying to “disavow” the initiative of Secretary of state John Kerry.
“Russia is making this decision, including the Security Council, which would have chances of success. That initiative, which was discussed by Lavrov and Kerry, two days ago, it has chances of success, as it would lead to the effective completion of the tragedy of Aleppo,” the diplomat said following the vote.
“Russia has insisted on such decision, including the Security Council, which would have chances of success”
the permanent representative of Russia recalled that at the meeting in Rome, Lavrov and Kerry discussed the plan, which envisages the withdrawal of the militants from the Eastern neighborhoods of the city, and agreed to forward to Geneva of experts for the coordination of routes and time of withdrawal, RIA “Novosti”.
“once that happens, will come into force a ceasefire that will allow for the evacuation of militants,” – said Churkin.
In turn, the Season at the meeting of the UN security Council claimed that the Russian side tries under the “false pretext” to prevent the Security Council to react to the situation in Aleppo.
“the United States, including Secretary Kerry, have continued our bilateral consultations with Russia to try to find some way that would alleviate the suffering of people in Eastern Aleppo. However, we have not come to a breakthrough, because Russia is more focused on retention of its military successes, not helping the civilians,” she said.
According to her, Moscow “many times in the past used the vague term of achieving some diplomatic transactions as the argument for delaying action by the Security Council”.
Taking the reply, Churkin expressed regret that his American counterpart “was very aggressively”. According to him, from the speech of the Season, it was clear that the U.S. delegation to the UN “is trying to disavow” the initiative put forward by Kerry.
“I Hope, however, that the Secretary of state will find the strength to return to this initiative, and then we would have failed the question really is such solution that would be effective and sustainable,” – said the diplomat.
Egypt is one of the sponsors of the draft resolution stated that the document was not sufficiently agreed upon for a vote: “Commenting on the disapproval by the Security Council of a draft resolution submitted by Egypt, Spain and New Zealand to cope with the grave humanitarian situation in Aleppo and to ensure observance of the ceasefire and delivery of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, the foreign Ministry confirmed that Egypt would prefer to continue the consultation process on the project to ensure full consensus on it among members of the security Council.”
“Egypt has made great efforts in recent weeks for consultations with the aim of convergence of views on the draft resolution, but some member States insisted on his making the vote in its current form, which was not approved by all countries,” – said in a communiqué.
in addition, the UK’s permanent representative to the UN Matthew Rycroft expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of China to join Moscow in blocking resolution. His Chinese colleague Liu Jieyi in response demanded to stop “poison the atmosphere” in the UN security Council.
Churkin also said Kiev on criticism of Damascus – Russia’s permanent representative said that the claim that Ukraine is trying to present to Damascus, “word for word” to bring Ukrainian “special operation” in the Donbass.
the Official U.S. state Department spokesman mark Toner at a regular briefing, did not confirm the agreement on the withdrawal of fighters from Aleppo between Washington and Moscow, reports TASS.
“I saw these statements. I can’t confirm anything right now,” said Toner.
According to him, after last Friday’s meeting of Secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Rome “held a discussion in the format of technical talks.”
“But I have nothing to confirm right now,” the diplomat added.
Toner said that Russia is concerned about the presence in Aleppo the group “Dzhebhat EN – Nusra”, the United States, in turn, are concerned about “attacks on the civilian population” and for the moderate opposition groups, “which do not deserve to be bombed.”
we will Remind, Russia and China blocked a UN security Council draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, Syria.
last week, the Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov at a press conference in Moscow said that us Secretary of state John Kerry on Friday gave him the offer of the USA on Aleppo in line with the approaches promoted by Russia.
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