7 countries voted against Russia's resolution at the United Nations

A Russian draft resolution on the mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission to investigate the chemical attack in Syria (IDA) failed to be adopted at the United Nations Security Council because it did not receive the required number of votes.

United Nations Security Council.

The two permanent members of the Security Council, Russia and China, as well as Kazakhstan and Bolivia, supported it.

However, the US, UK, France, Sweden, Ukraine, Italy and Uruguay voted against. Four other Security Council members, Ethiopia, Japan, Egypt and Senegal, abstained.

Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations said that Moscow introduced a draft resolution on the OPCW mission's mandate because Security Council members refused to consider it after voting for a similar US project.

According to Sputnik