UN Security Council discusses new Syria resolution
The U.N. Security Council began negotiations Monday on a draft resolution seeking an immediate truce in Aleppo and calling for an end to all military flights over the Syrian city, where over a quarter million people in rebel-held areas are besieged by Syrian forces.
But Russia immediately rejected any grounding of aircraft and questioned whether a resolution at this time would actually produce any results.
The resolution drafted by France and Spain threatens “further measures” — diplomatic code for sanctions — should any party fail to comply with the truce, and it asks for a new U.N.-supervised truce monitor.
“We consider that this is our responsibility to do absolutely everything we can do, everything humanly possible to unite the Security Council behind our efforts to end the martyrdom in Aleppo,” France’s U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre said before Monday’s meeting.