(MENAFN) According to The Guardian, Western nations are planning to turn to Resolution 377A, commonly known as "Uniting for Peace," giving the UN General Assembly special credentials to interfere in the matter, bypassing the Security Council, if its five permanent members cannot reach unanimity, Sputnik reported.
Whereby, Western states would be able to override Russia's veto on targeting Syria-Moscow's inherent right as a permanent member of the Security Council which been applied over a dozen times.
"The Russian veto need not be the end of efforts for collective action by the UN. The responsibility of asserting accountability for the use of chemical weapons, and for bringing an end to the horrors of the Syrian conflict, rests with the world community as a whole," Ian Martin, a former UN official and Amnesty International chief, told The Guardian.
On April 14, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, bypassed the UN Security Council and launched joint missiles strikes on multiple targets in Syria as retaliation for the alleged use of chemical weapons by government forces in the city of Douma, Eastern Ghouta. The Syrian authorities have denied any involvement in the alleged chemical attack, denouncing it as a false flag, while Russia condemned the trilateral strikes, calling them an "act of aggression against a sovereign state."
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