US and Russia Veto UN’s Turkey Resolution

Following up on the news from this post: Turkey Launches Operation Peace SpringNumber 9 regarding the UN Security Council MeetingThe US stated they’d already been very clear about their condemnation.Russia wanted the resolution expanded to condemn the presence of the US occupation forces.The resolution didn't pass WaPo

Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the Trump administration does not endorse Turkey’s military action and warned of unspecified “consequences” but stopped short of condemning it.The Russian U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, accused the United States and its coalition allies of conducting “demographic engineering” that he said led to the conflict. He called for a solution that would “take into account other aspects of the Syrian crisis, not just the Turkish operation.”“It should speak about the illegal military presence in that country,” he said in an apparent reference to U.S. troops in Syria.

Daily Sabah

The U.S. and Russia vetoed a statement by five European members — France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and Poland — condemning the operation.Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, whose country is a key ally of Syria's Bashar Assad, told reporters that any council statement on Syria must address broader issues, including the presence of foreign forces in the country.U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft told reporters that President Donald Trump "has made abundantly clear" that the United States "has not in any way" endorsed Turkey's decision to mount a military incursion in northeast Syria.