G20 leaders remain divided over the
Syrian conflict as they enter the final day of their annual summit in Russia.
Italian Premier Enrico Letta said
the splits were confirmed during a working dinner in St Petersburg on Thursday.
At the UN, US ambassador Samantha
Power accused Russia of holding the Security Council hostage by repeatedly
blocking anti-Syria resolutions.
Power told a news conference in New
York: "Even in the wake of the flagrant shattering of the international
norm against chemical weapons use, Russia continues to hold the council hostage
and shirk its international responsibilities.
US President Barack Obama, at
the G20 summit, is trying to build an international coalition to back
strikes against military targets in Syria, but other leaders oppose
intervention in the Arab nation.
The US government accuses the Syrian
armed forces of killing 1,429 people in a poison-gas attack in the Damascus
suburbs on 21 August. But Damascus has blamed militants for the attack, and
China and Russia have refused to agree to a UN Security Council resolution
against Syria.
The US and France are the only
nations at the G20 summit to commit to using force in Syria. China and Russia
insist any action without the UN mandate would be illegal.
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