Posted on 02/28/2017 4:23:01 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Perhaps the Security Council would not have failed yet again to deal effectively with the Syrian crisis if a more narrowly tailored consensus resolution had been proposed.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), which was established in August 2015 under a unanimously approved Security Council resolution, was assigned the responsibility to determine who was responsible for a series of chemical attacks since 2013 that killed Syrian civilians. The independent expert panel concluded that there was sufficient evidence to determine that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons on three separate occasions from 2014 to 2015, while ISIS had used them at least once. With that conclusion in hand, the United States, United Kingdom and France introduced a draft resolution on February 28th imposing sanctions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter on Syrian government officials and entities linked to the chemical weapons attacks; placing an embargo on arms sales and chemicals intended to be used as weapons; and establishing a sanctions committee and panel of experts to monitor the implementation of these measures. Russia and China vetoed the draft resolution, which blocked its adoption. Bolivia also voted no. Nine Security Council members voted yes, and three abstained.
the UnitedNazis are irrelevent anyway
UN has so discredited itself that nobody in the real world gives a da*n what they say or vote anymore
the UnitedNazis are irrelevent anyway
UN has so discredited itself that nobody in the real world gives a da*n what they say or vote anymore
UNEXIT NOW
Agreed. Let’s get the UN out of USA (its just an excuse for thousands of spies to get into our largest city)
and
either we should get the H out of the UN or else just keep our Security Council seat so we can veto any crazy resolutions......... and cut out all the excessive contributions, funding we give it
UN stinks and it is a blemish on our country to belong to it
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