Kremlin: Russia will call for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over US strike on Assad’s forces
Russia is going to call for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to be convened following the airstrike by the American coalition against pro-government forces in Syria, said the First Deputy of the Federation Council on Defense and Security Committee, Franz Klintsevich, as reported by RIA Novosti.
Klintsevich stressed that the airstrike by the American military is yet another act of aggression. “The attack by the US-led coalition is the coalition directly entering into open military conflict with Syria. This is an act of aggression, Russia will immediately raise the question of convening of the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council,” Klintsevich said. He noted that it was a “purposeful action, with the goal of weakening the offensive of the pro-government forces”.
The international coalition’s aircraft attacked pro-government forces in Syria within the designated de-escalation zone in the south of the country, according to the statement circulated by the operation headquarters of Inherent Resolve, which is conducted in Iraq and Syria by a group of countries headed by the US. “Despite the warnings, tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft defense and other military equipment of the pro-government forces, as well as nearly 60 soldiers, entered into the established de-escalation zone, threatening the forces of the coalition and its partners located at the Al-Tanf base,” the document states.