...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Security Council delayed until Wednesday a vote on a U.S.-Chinese drafted resolution that would dramatically expand U.N. sanctions on
North Korea after Russia said it needed more time to review the text, diplomats said.| This is why China is okay with going ahead -- they know Russia has their back... |
"Subsequent to the United States' request ... to schedule a council vote for this afternoon, Russia invoked a procedural 24-hour review of the resolution, so the vote will be on Wednesday," the U.S. mission to the United Nations said in a statement to news hounds.
The expanded sanctions, if adopted, would require inspections of all cargo going to and from North Korea and blacklisting North Koreans active in Syria, Iran and Vietnam.
After nearly two months of bilateral negotiations that at one point involved U.S. President Barack Obama
...I am not a dictator!
and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, China agreed to support the unusually tough measures intended to persuade its close ally North Korea to abandon its atomic weapons program.