Russia and Syria are under fire from western countries in
the UN Security Council over the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria on
Thursday.
The soldiers died in an attack by Russia-backed Syrian
government forces in the northwestern province of Idlib.
At an emergency meeting of the council in New York on
Friday, the United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Belgium and Estonia
condemned the attack.
Dominican Republic, Indonesia, South Africa, Vietnam,
Tunisia and Niger demanded immediate ceasefire.
U.S. ambassador, Kelly Craft, described the attack as
senseless and barbaric, adding that Turkey had America’s support to “respond in
self-defence’’.
U.K. envoy, Jonathan Allen, lashed out at what he called
“the merciless and disproportionate campaign being waged by the Syrian regime
and its Russian backers.”
But China’s representative, Zhang Jun, pointed out that the
Syrian conflict had its complicated background.
He said the least of the terrorist groups “should be
resolutely crushed in accordance with the relevant council resolutions and
international law”.
The Syrian ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja’afari, accused
Turkey of using the observation posts in Idlib to support the terrorists’s
“plundering, looting, kidnapping, torturing, raping’’.
The Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya,
corroborated Ja’afari’s position band claimed that the Turkish soldiers were
killed outside the observation posts.
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