"The UN nuclear watchdog board decided on Thursday to report Syria to the Security Council for covert atomic work, a U.S.-led move coinciding with Western condemnation of Damascus' crackdown on opposition protests.
Russia and China voted against the proposal at the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), highlighting big power divisions on the issue.
With 17 votes in favor and six against, the IAEA's 35-nation board adopted the resolution rebuking the Arab state for three years of stonewalling of an agency probe into the Dair Alzour desert site bombed by Israel in 2007...
It came a day after Britain, France, Germany and Portugal handed the council a draft resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on protesters, despite the risk of a Russian veto.
The 15-nation council in New York has the power to impose sanctions, as it has done four times over Iran's nuclear program, but diplomats don't believe that will happen any time soon in the Syrian case due to Russian and Chinese opposition..."
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Russia, China & Syria ... (Part I)
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