U.S. Stonewalls Putin’s ‘Anti-Terror’ Push at the United Nations

Foreign Policy: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first visit to the U.N. General Assembly in a decade was meant to let him slap a seal of international approval on his military foray into Syria, by seeking agreement on a U.N. Security Council statement promoting a broad-based counterterrorism fight. But U.S. diplomats have squelched the proposal, sinking Russia’s hopes of sailing into New York next week under a saintly halo.

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