Russia vetoed a resolution of the Board Bezopasnoti of the UN on the chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib. The results of the vote on Wednesday, April 12, leads RIA Novosti.
The draft document was submitted, the United States, Britain and France, it is the Secretary General of the organization were asked to investigate the incident with the use of chemical weapons in Khan Sheyhun.
Against this resolution, except Russia, were made by Bolivia. China abstained.
Earlier, the Ambassador of France to the UN Francois Delattre called the draft resolution “balanced”. The new version is almost the same as the text submitted by these States last week, but not voted on.
On the night of 7 April, the President of the United States Donald trump ordered to launch a missile attack on the airfield shirt used by Syrian government aircraft. In all there were 58 cruise missiles. It was made after April 4, the Syrian opposition said about the alleged use loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of chemical weapons in Idlib province, resulting in 87 people were killed and over 200 injured. Damascus his involvement in the incident denies.