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UNSC Working on Merging Russian, French Draft Resolutions on Aleppo Monitoring

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The UN Security Council is currently discussing the possibility of merging French and Russian proposals regarding monitoring evacuations in Syrian Aleppo into one draft resolution.

Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Francois Delattre speaks to media ahead of a United Nations Security Council vote, aimed at ensuring that U.N. officials can monitor evacuations from besieged parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, at the United Nations in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 18, 2016 - Sputnik International
French UN Envoy Says Hard to Compromise on Aleppo Draft Resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The UN Security Council is currently discussing the possibility of merging French and Russian proposals regarding monitoring evacuations in Syrian Aleppo into one draft resolution, a diplomatic source told reporters on Sunday.

"There is French draft and Russian draft. We discuss how to merge the gap between them," the source said.

The UN Security Council is holding emergency discussions on Sunday devoted in particular to the French draft resolution on deployment of UN observers to monitor the evacuations in Aleppo.

Earlier in the day, Russian envoy to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that the French draft was "unworkable and dangerous" and that Russia presented an alternative draft resolution.

According to Churkin, the French draft resolution calls for the immediate deployment of unprepared UN personnel to the dangerous zones of eastern Aleppo. This may cause provocations and further disturb the situation on the ground, Churkin said, adding that Russia supported any kind of monitoring but did not agree with France on the modalities of how it should be done.

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