The United States will ask the UN Security Council to vote soon on imposing an arms embargo on South Sudan, the US ambassador said Monday. “It’s extremely important to vote this by the end of the year,” said US Ambassador Samantha Power.
The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution requiring the monitoring of evacuations from Aleppo. The resolution, initially drafted by France, was originally called a “disaster” by Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin. However, Moscow and Paris came to an agreement on the text after more than three hours of ...