Churkin: UNSC Agrees ‘Good Text’ for Resolution on Aleppo, Voting to Held Monday

Russia’s UN envoy said the UN Security Council agreed a “good text” of a resolution on Aleppo evacuation monitoring.


The stance by the Russian envoy comes after Moscow’s promise to veto the French resolution and its putting forward a rival draft, RT reported.

The voting on the new version of the document is scheduled for Monday, Vitaly Churkin said.

The US ambassador to the UN believes the resolution will be passed unanimously.

• "We expect to vote unanimously for this text,” Samantha Power told reporters after a three-hour closed door meeting, according to Reuters.

Earlier, Russia's ambassador to the UN said he French-drafted resolution for placing the Aleppo evacuation under the supervision of the UN is “dangerous and impossible to implement,", promising to veto the initiative and put some new proposals on the table instead.

We cannot allow it to pass because this is a disaster,” Russia’s UN envoy, Vitaly Churkin, told journalists commenting on the French-initiated resolution.
  [farsnews.com]
 19/12/16

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