“Let’s do this tonight”, tweeted U. S. Ambassador to the U. N. Nikki Haley, “The Syrian people can’t wait.”
The U. N. Security Council on Friday delayed a vote on a demand for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, where pro-government warplanes have been pounding the last rebel bastion near Damascus in one of the deadliest bombing campaigns of the seven-year civil war. A draft resolution aimed at ending the carnage in the eastern Ghouta district and elsewhere in Syria will be put up for a vote in the 15-member council at noon (1700 GMT) on Saturday, Kuwait’s U. N. Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi said.
