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UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council
will meet on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET (1830 GMT) to discuss the
recent massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, which the United
Nations has blamed on the Syrian government but Damascus says
was due to a rebel attack, a council diplomat said.
At least 109 people, including many children, were killed in
the Houla attack.
The council meeting was called after Russia rejected a French
and British proposal for a statement condemning the massacre,
diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
Moscow, which remains a staunch ally of Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad, told other members of the 15-nation council
that it wanted a briefing first from General Robert Mood, the
head of the unarmed U.N. monitoring mission in Syria, envoys
said.
(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Philip Barbara)
