Russian draft offers hope of UN Syria resolution
Russia offered a new, beefed-up draft resolution on the violence in Syria to the UN Security Council on Thursday, and Western countries said for the first time they were willing to negotiate over it.
Although Western envoys said the Russian text was too weak, their readiness to work on it offered a chance for the Security Council to overcome its deadlock and issue the 15-nation panel's first resolution on Syria's bloody nine-month-old crackdown on opposition protesters. (Reuters)
