UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Two draft UN Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions, submitted by Russia and France this week, could both be adopted, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told reporters.
"Theirs [France’s] is much more narrow draft, ours is broader, more fundamental so basically I don't see much of a contradiction. We are studying it," Churkin said on Thursday.
Russia submitted a renewed draft UN Security Council resolution on the coordination of efforts in the fight against terrorism on Wednesday. The document is a renewed version of the draft resolution that Russia submitted to the UN Security Council on September 30.
"Maybe if they took a day or two more to work on it they could have improved a thing or two," Churkin said on Thursday commenting on the French draft.
Asked if both the French and Russian draft resolution could be adopted Churkin said that they could.
"Because if you think back to events after Nine Eleven, first there was a short draft then a couple of weeks later there was a more comprehensive draft," the Russian envoy explained.
On Wednesday, Churkin said that Russia’s new draft singles out the threat posed by Islamic State (ISIL) radicals.
The ISIL jihadist group, operating in Syria and Iraq, has claimed responsibility for the November 13 terrorists attacked in Paris, which killed 129 people, injuring over 350.
