Moscow on Tuesday slams the holding of a US-led counter-terrorism summit at the United Nations, calling it disrespectful.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama sat down with more than 100 leaders at the UN to push ahead with a US-led campaign against the Islamic State group.
Russia was invited to the counter-terrorism summit but President Vladimir Putin is pushing a rival plan to create a broad UN-led coalition to fight the Islamic State jihadists.
“This initiative seriously undermines UN efforts in this direction,” Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin is quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
“The UN has its own anti-terror strategy and everything could easily be done within the UN framework.”
“But Americans would not be Americans if they did not seek to demonstrate their leadership,” Churkin says.
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