Foreign Minister Murray McCully has launched a broadside against Russia and the Security Council in New York this morning, saying it was an indictment on the Security Council that it had once again failed to stop innocent people being killed.
In a speech at a Security Council meeting of foreign ministers this morning, Mr McCully said that the meeting, chaired by Russia, had failed to come up with a resolution or even agreement on a Presidential statement on Syria.
"We will not stop the fighting. Sadly this is symbolic of the dysfunction and mistrust that has characterised this Council's performance on Syria and too many of the conflicts that rage in the region. And it must stop."
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Speaking to media afterward he said it was astonishing that in a week in which many countries' leaders and foreign ministers were in New York for the General Assembly the best the Security Council could do was have a discussion.