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The Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN Vitaly Churkin submitted a draft resolution on Syria to the security council, presented as an alternative to the document proposed by France. It is reported by TASS.

The Russian document supports the proposal of the special envoy of the UN for Syria Staffan de Mistura to withdraw the militants of the Jabhat Fatam Esh-Sham terrorist organization (former Jabhat An-Nusra) from the eastern part of Aleppo. The document contains a request for the UN Secretary General of Pan Hi Muna "to submit to the Security Council a detailed plan for implementing" this initiative.

In addition, the Russian draft resolution calls for all parties to comply with Russian-American agreements on Syria, reached on September 9. The document also contains the requirement to stop supporting any terrorist groups in Syria and to ensure that all the formation of the opposition interrupt cooperation with them.

On Friday, France introduced its draft resolution to the UN Security Council. It provides for the introduction of a ban on military aviation flights over Aleppo and calling for a ceasefire in Syria. In case of failure to fulfill the requirements, the document allows the introduction of measures against the parties to the Syrian conflict.

The security council will consider both documents late in the evening on Saturday.

On Friday, the head of the French Foreign Ministry, Jean-Mark Ero, at a joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry, said that the voting on Saturday at the UN Security Council to establish a truce in Syria will check the readiness of Moscow to put an end to the bloody brown . “Tomorrow there will be a moment of truth, the moment of truth for all members of the Security Council,” said Ero. “Do you want a ceasefire in Aleppo - yes or no? And in particular, this issue refers to our Russian partner.”

Kerry, in turn, said that Russia's actions in Syria in support of the Bashar Assad regime should be investigated as possible war crimes. The Secretary of State accused Moscow and the Syrian authorities of holding a focused strategy to terrorize the civilian population in Aleppo and in the destruction of anyone who is obstructed in the implementation of their military tasks.

The deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Ryabkov, called the issuance of the French project of a resolution on Syria to the UN Security Council by "political blackmail", and the project itself regarded the "unacceptable."

“I have a suspicion that the true motive is to call Russia a veto, even though the French colleagues initially told us that they have no such intentions,” Churkin said. “I do not see the opportunity how this resolution can pass.”

On Tuesday, the Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein proposed limiting the permanent members of the Security Council in the use of Veto's right , "when there are serious suspicions that war crimes against humanity and genocide can be committed." The official associated such an initiative with the situation in Syria. According to Zeid, on September 21, when the Syrian government and its allies began the brutal bombing of the eastern districts of Aleppo , held by the rebels, hundreds of civilians, including at least 100 children, died in the city.

The deprivation of permanent members of the Council of Security of the Veto, the Supreme Commissioner noted, will allow this structure to appeal to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. “ The attack on the humanitarian convoy on September 19 , recent blows to three bases of the White Helmys volunteer rescue group, as well as raids for at least three large hospitals in the east of Aleppo ... - All this seems to indicate that the following operations are carried out with a complete neglect of most basic norms of international humanitarian law,” said Zeid.

According to the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin was "reacted negatively" to the initiative of the Supreme Commissioner. In a similar vein, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, was also. "This, of course, goes beyond the theoretical, philosophical framework of the UN Secretariat - to give such instructions to the countries - members of the Security Council, and indeed countries to members of the organization," the official said. "This is not a thing, it is not the case of the secretariat."

Earlier, Russia has repeatedly vested the UN Security Council resolutions about the situation in Syria. In 2015, Great Britain and France proposed to the permanent members of the Security Council to voluntarily abandon the veto's right in the discussion of mass crimes. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov categorically rejected this idea .