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Russian envoy says Security Council blocked condemnation of passenger-train bombings, disputes claims of mass child abductions
Summary
A Russian ambassador told reporters the U.N. Security Council failed to adopt even a standard press statement condemning May bombings of passenger trains that killed seven and injured more than 100, and disputed wider claims that thousands of Ukrainian children were abducted, saying Moscow had handed the council a list of 339 names.
An ambassador speaking for the Russian delegation said the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on a condemnation of May bombings of passenger trains in the Bryansk, Kursk and Voronezh regions that he said killed seven civilians and injured over 100.
The envoy said a draft resolution — he said it was based on previously agreed Security Council language, including Resolution 1373, and grounded in the UN Charter and the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism — was not supported by some delegations. “Any justification of terrorism is unacceptable,” the ambassador said, adding that even a minimal alternative, a standard press statement expressing condemnation and solidarity with victims, was blocked.
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