Russia on Thursday used its veto power for the tenth time at the United Nations Security Council since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, this time blocking a U.S.-drafted resolution to renew an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
The mandate for the joint inquiry by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which found the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent sarin in an April 4 attack, expires at midnight Thursday, noted Reuters.
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