December 30, 2016
LEAVING THE WEST:
Israel said to skip General Assembly vote on Syria, on Netanyahu's orders (TIMES OF ISRAEL, December 28, 2016)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Israeli UN mission in New York to skip a vote last week at the General Assembly on a resolution that would have allowed for the establishment of a mechanism to investigate allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria.According to a report in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, this directive came amid heavy diplomatic pressure from Russia, which is deeply involved in the ongoing Syrian civil war and which did not want its military implicated in any international probes.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 30, 2016 7:34 AM