Russia vetoes bid to set up tribunal for downed flight MH17
Source: Reuters
UNITED NATIONS: Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Wednesday that would have set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysia Airlines passenger airliner last year in eastern Ukraine.
Eleven countries on the 15-member council voted in favor of the proposal by Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands and Ukraine, while three countries abstained: China, Angola and Venezuela.
Flight MH17 was shot down in July 2014 with 298 passengers on board, two-thirds of them Dutch. It crashed in Ukrainian territory held by Russian-backed separatists.
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cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)nothing can be vetoed unless 3 of the veto power countries agree to veto it.
Right now it seems to be abused alot by the countries with this power as they can kill off anything they please be it Russia in this case or the US when it comes to protecting Israel.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)it renders the whole council worthless imo as it will never allow for anything to be done to any country on the council who has that power or whos want to use it to shield a close ally like the US does for Israel.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)Had a brain cramp.
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)I mean, it was Ukraine that shot down MH17, and Russia would surely want to hold the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis accountable in front of the whole world, right?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)It is not like Russia invaded them or anything.
just in case. Seriously, why else would Russia block this?
Charles de Gaudless
(102 posts)But you don't have Ogarkov anymore!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)their proxy thugs, why are they afraid of a tribunal?
Maybe some idiot will be along to quote Robert Parry's attempt to spin it
Telcontar
(660 posts)You can't dictate to a world power. That's what the veto recognizes. Either you have a veto or a nuclear armed state saying fick you, make me. Veto is at least politer
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)would have done the same thing.