Inside the UN Security Council's double veto on Venezuela
United Nations The bitter differences between the world's most powerful nations were on full display in New York on Thursday, as the United Nations Security Council weighed two equally hopeless resolutions on Venezuela.
In a diplomatic game of chicken, the UK, France and the United States squared off against Russia and China. The United States had waited weeks to put forward its draft resolution, which described embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro's presidency as the result of elections that were"neither free nor fair." The resolution also called for new presidential elections, and delivery access for foreign humanitarian aid.
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