Moscow vetoes West's anti-Syria Khan Sheikhoun resolution

Russia, as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, vetoed the US-backed resolution while Moscow last week presented a draft resolution to the Council calling for inspection of the incident in Khan Sheikhoun region in Idlib in northern Syria.

Ten states comprising the US, the UK, France, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay voted in favor of the US-backed resolution while Russia and Bolivia voted against its and China, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan abstained.

The UN Security Council failed to adopt the resolution as Russia vetoed it.

Through their draft resolution, the Western countries did call on the Syrian government to give all information about its military operations on April 4 when the chemical attack occured in Khan Sheikhoun; such a call brought Russia’s disagreement.

The Western media and officials unfoundedly try to condemn Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun, while the Russian and Syrian officials stress that blast of terrorists' ammunition depot in that region has caused the incident.

The Khan Sheikhoun gave a new pretext to the US to repeat its threats and make them operational as Washington attacked Syria by its missiles a day after the incident.

The experts believe that US President Donald Trump has ordered airstrikes on Syria in order to attract the public opinion and compensate the defeat of the terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

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