{"id":191564,"date":"2020-05-13T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=191564"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T08:00:24","slug":"russia-china-boycott-a-closed-door-un-security-council-meeting-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=191564","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China boycott a closed-door UN Security Council meeting On Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN, SANA- Russia and China on Tuesday evening boycotted a closed-door videoconference of the UN Security Council on the Western claims on using chemical weapons in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AFP quoted Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia as saying in a virtual press conference that Moscow had one request: &#8220;That the interaction is conducted in an open setting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Regrettably, our Western partners, and their allies, insisted on holding this meeting behind closed doors in an informal setting despite the slogans of openness and transparency of the Security Council,&#8221; Nebenzia added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He went on saying &#8220;Such (an) approach is unacceptable to us as it undermines the prerogatives of State parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Russia and China have empty tiles&#8221; on the screen, a Security Council member told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN, SANA- Russia and China on Tuesday evening boycotted a closed-door videoconference of the UN Security Council on the Western claims on using chemical weapons in Syria. The AFP quoted Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia as saying in a virtual press conference that Moscow had one request: &#8220;That the interaction is conducted in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":191565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[21963,6882],"class_list":["post-191564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-china-boycott-a-closed-door-un-security-council-meeting-on-syria","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}