Security Council fails to adopt U.S.-drafted resolution on chemical attacks probe in Syria

 

Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari speaks after the Security Council failed to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution extending mandate of mechanism investigating chemical attacks in Syria at the UN headquarters in New York, on Nov. 16, 2017. The draft text of the United States addressing the renewal of the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the UN investigating chemical attacks in Syria failed to be adopted by the Security Council Thursday. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)