Bashar Ja'afari (front L), Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vitaly Churkin before the Security Council votes on a draft resolution on Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York, on May 22, 2014. Russia and China, two permanent members of the UN Security Council, on Thursday used their veto power over a draft resolution intended to refer the Syrian civil war to the International Criminal Court (ICC). (Xinhua/Niu Xiaolei)
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