Wednesday, October 5, 2011

US assails China, Russia vetoes on Syria at UN - World news - Asia-Pacific - China - msnbc.com

US assails China, Russia vetoes on Syria at UN - World news - Asia-Pacific - China - msnbc.com

clipped from article:
The Obama administration stepped up its criticism of China and Russia on Wednesday for vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown on pro-reform protesters, and presumably for selling more arms to Bashar Assad's government despite violence that has killed nearly 3,000 people since March.

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Describing the two governments as unable to stand with peaceful protesters for "even one day in one city," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advanced two days of angry U.S. criticism at its fellow U.N. Security Council members. Without mentioning either by name, she suggested they were continuing to sell military equipment to Syria and that they also had blood on their hands for the violence. [ read more at link ]

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