{"id":1720,"date":"2011-08-26T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-26T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T16:14:01","slug":"russia-china-boycott-un-syria-sanctions-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/russia-china-boycott-un-syria-sanctions-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China Boycott UN Syria Sanctions Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"><strong>Diplomats says absence of China, Russia at talks signals tough negotiations ahead on move to act against Assad.<\/strong><\/span><strong><\/p>\n<p>ADO-World.org<br \/>\n<\/strong>26-August-2011<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS &#8211; Russia and China on Thursday boycotted UN Security Council talks on a Western proposal to impose sanctions on Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad, diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p>Their absence at the talks signalled the tough negotiations ahead on the move to act against Assad&#8217;s deadly crackdown on opposition protests, diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassadors or their deputies from the 15-nation council were invited to the talks. &quot;The Russian and Chinese seats were empty, there was no one,&quot; a council diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and China, along with the United States, France and Britain, are permanent members of the council who can veto any resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has strongly spoken out against Syria sanctions, insisting that more time be given to Assad to carry out promised reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, India and South Africa, non-permanent members of the council, are also believed to have strong reservations about sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and the United States &#8211; the main backers of the sanctions campaign &#8211; hope to sway at least one of the three doubters from the emerging powers.<\/p>\n<p>Their draft resolution calls for sanctions against Assad, his entourage and companies that fund the Syrian government and a total arms embargo.<\/p>\n<p>Assad leads a list of 23 individuals and four entities named in the draft document who would be subject to an asset freeze. The president is however not on the 22-name list for a proposed travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN, more than 2,200 civilians have been killed since protests against Assad started in mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>The Security Council has so far only condemned the violence in Syria in a statement agreed on August 3, following months of opposition from China, Russia and their council allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middle-east-online.com\/english\/?id=47812\">Middle East Online<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomats says absence of China, Russia at talks signals tough negotiations ahead on move to act against Assad. ADO-World.org 26-August-2011 UNITED NATIONS &#8211; Russia and China on Thursday boycotted UN Security Council talks on a Western proposal to impose sanctions on Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad, diplomats said. Their absence at the talks signalled the tough &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Assad3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}