The United States survived the vote to go ahead with the meeting, receiving the minimum nine yes votes from the council's six Western nations along with Kuwait, Peru and Dominican Republic. ..…

The Putin regime claimed that the economic, political and humanitarian crisis wrought by the catastrophic actions of the Maduro regime was not a proper agenda item for the Security Council to consider. The Security Council, by a procedural vote of 9 in favor (Belgium, Dominican Republic,..…

The two diplomats has faced off ahead of the meeting when the Council held a procedural vote on whether the session would even go forward, as ‘the situation in Venezuela’ is not an official item on the Council’s agenda. . But by a vote of nine in favour (Belgium, Dominican Republic, France,..…