{"id":25389,"date":"2018-03-20T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25389"},"modified":"2018-03-20T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:58:34","slug":"un-human-rights-chief-slams-security-council-after-russia-blocks-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/un-human-rights-chief-slams-security-council-after-russia-blocks-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"UN human rights chief slams Security Council after Russia blocks meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is the largest international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and a permanent member of the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. High Commissioner For Human Rights Zeid Ra&#8217;ad Al-Hussein slammed the Security Council after Russia on Monday (March 19) blocked a meeting to<\/p>\n<p>discuss the human rights situation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Security Council&#8217;s role in upholding the charter and human rights across the world is blocked, if it can no longer rise to meet the challenge of crises and<\/p>\n<p>conflicts, then as the UN and the great framework of international law begin to break down into irrelevance,&#8221; he said in an alternate meeting later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is the largest international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and a permanent member of the Security Council<\/p>\n<p>France and six other members had called for the Security Council meeting, which was expected to include a briefing from Zeid.<\/p>\n<p>China, Bolivia and Kazakhstan voted with Russia to prevent the meeting, while Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia were abstentions.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is the largest international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and a permanent member of the Security Council. U.N. High Commissioner For Human Rights Zeid Ra&#8217;ad Al-Hussein slammed the Security Council after Russia on Monday (March 19) blocked a meeting to discuss the human rights situation in Syria. &#8220;If the Security Council&#8217;s role in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25391,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25389\/revisions\/25391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}