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July 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Friday that his country will veto the British proposal if it comes up for a vote.
“We are going to vote against. We told them yesterday,” Churkin told reporters.
Moscow supports a Pakistani proposal that will extend the mission for 45 days with no conditions and the possibility of further renewals.
Russia had earlier said that it wants the UN mission extended for another three months.
The UN is due to vote on whether to renew the mandate for its observer mission in Syria on Friday, when the 90-day mandate of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) is due to run out.
On Thursday, Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council draft resolution against Syria, which called for new sanctions against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
It is the third time that the two countries block an anti-Damascus resolution since the beginning of unrest in Syria last year.
Syria has been the scene of deadly unrest since mid-March, 2011, and many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.
Four senior Syrian military and security officials were killed in a terrorist bombing at the headquarters of the Syrian National Security in the capital on Wednesday.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing protesters. But Damascus blames ”outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
HM/JR/SS
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