Russia accuses US of breaching international law with airstrike on Syrian airbase as UN hears America acted like ‘judge and executioner’
Bolivia’s UN Ambassador called today’s emergency Security Council meeting
He and the Russian representative condemned President Trump’s missile strike
The US received the support of the United Kingdom and the French Ambassador
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said a political solution was needed
By DARREN BOYLE
DailyMail.com
7 April 2017
Russia has accused the United States of breaching international law by striking a Syrian airbase as the United Nations heard America acted like a ‘judge and executioner’.
The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York today following the overnight cruise missile strikes on a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack.
Russia angrily denounced the military action as an ‘aggression against a sovereign state’.
The council meeting was called by Bolivia, which branded the US strikes a violation of international law.
Bolivian Ambassador Sacha Lorenti said the United States had behaved like ‘investigator, attorney, judge and executioner’.
Briefing reporters before the meeting, Lorenti said: ‘This is not what international law is all about.’
France and Britain called for a renewed push for political negotiations to end the six-year war in Syria.
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