New York, SANA- Russia and China have vetoed a US draft resolution at the UN Security Council that did not call for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“The US draft resolution was not balanced and does not reflect the required call for a ceasefire, and therefore it cannot be allowed to pass because it will completely make the Council lose its credibility,” Russia Today website quoted Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, as saying during a Security Council session.
In turn, the Chinese Representative to the Security Council stressed that the US draft resolution equates the victim with the executioner, and does not reflect the required call for a ceasefire.
The Chinese diplomat called for opening humanitarian corridors, delivering aid to the Gaza Strip, and preventing the forced displacement of its people.
Manar Salameh/ Ruaa al-Jazaeri