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United Nations Security Council, Putin and Ukraine Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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France's Interior Minister Matthias Fekl, left, Justice minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas, right, and Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve speak to the media after a defense and security council meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Friday, April 21, 2017. France began picking itself up from another fatal shooting claimed by the Islamic State group, with President Francois Hollande calling together his security council and with his would-be successors treading carefully before the election this weekend. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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FILE- In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, Britain's deputy U.N. ambassador, Peter Wilson, addresses the press before attending a Security Council meeting on North Korea, at U.N. headquarters. Nations urging the U.N. to ban helicopter sales to Syria and impose other sanctions over chemical weapons attacks are pressing toward a vote shortly. But Russia is vowing a veto. Wilson, said after a closed-door Security Council meeting Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, that a vote will come "as soon as possible." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative Petr Iliichev, center, joins other diplomats in a moment of silence in the U..N. Security Council, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations since 2006, died suddenly after falling ill at his office at Russia's U.N. mission Monday.He was the longest-serving ambassador on the Security Council, the U.N.'s most powerful body. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 image released by the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC), Kurdish peshmerga forces prepare their positions on the front line for battle against Islamic State group positions in northern Iraq. Kurdish Regional Security Council said Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 that Kurdish peshmerga fighters launched a new offensive to secure areas southeast and southwest of the dam. (AP Photo/Kurdistan Region Security Council)
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In this image released by the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC), Kurdish peshmerga forces prepare for battle against the Islamic State group, south of the Mosul Dam, in Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. Kurdish Regional Security Council said Wednesday that Kurdish peshmerga fighters launched a new offensive to secure areas southeast and southwest of the dam. (AP Photo/Kurdistan Region Security Council)
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U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council regarding the threat of foreign terrorist fighters during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations, Eugène-Richard Gasana, Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the UN, addresses the Security Council meeting at U.N. Headquarters, Wednesday, April 16, 2014, on the 1994 genocide in his country. During the session, former New Zealand ambassador Colin Keating, who was president of the Security Council in April 1994, apologized for the council's refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)
