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Russia Resists Arab League Proposal on Syria
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Thursday, 02 February 2012
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Three days of negotiations on at the United Nations Security Council failed to persuade veto- wielding Russia to back an Arab League plan to end the bloodshed in the Middle East nation. “This is not done,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters yesterday in New York .

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