Thursday, July 12, 2012

On Syria, US Would Only Support 45 Days, Chapter 7, Sanctions, Sources Tell Inner City Press



By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, July 11 -- After the UN Security Council held from Syria envoy Kofi Annan on Wednesday, sources tell Inner City Press, US Ambassador Susan Rice expanded on what she'd told the Press exclusive on Tuesday evening, that the Russian draft resolution is "insufficient."

In the meeting, the sources exclusively tell Inner City Press, Ambassador Rice said the US will only accept a draft under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, with sanctions, and with a mission rollover of no more than 45 days rather than three months as Russia proposed.

Meanwhile other sources said it is the UK and not France which will come forward with the counter-draft to Russia.