UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — Van Bohemen also noted that so far there has been no progress regarding the draft resolution’s main paragraph, and New Zealand is making efforts to see if it could bring the UN Security Council members closer on the issue.
"We addressed some of the more technical issues, but we still need a proper conversation on whether the main paragraph has any chance of bringing people together," van Bohemen said on Monday.
The chances of New Zealand’s draft resolution on the Syrian city of Aleppo going forward at the UN Security Council are still unclear, Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told reporters after holding informal Security Council consultations on Monday.
"So far the prospects are unclear. Not even regarding the adoption but [also regarding] further work," Churkin stated on Monday evening. "We have our conceptual approaches and the text [of the draft] does not match them."
However, Churkin noted that the consultations have showed a certain lack of convergence among the members of the Security Council.
New Zealand proposed a new draft resolution on the situation in Aleppo after the resolutions proposed previously by France and Russia failed to be adopted earlier in October.
The New Zealand mission to the United Nations told RIA Novosti that the draft resolution calls for an end to attacks that could lead to civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure in Syria, particularly in the city of Aleppo.
