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Russia blocks bid to briefly extend Syria chemical weapons inquiry

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (Reuters) Russia vetoed on Friday a Japanese-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution to extend by one month an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, just a day after Moscow blocked a U.S. push to renew the investigation.
The mandate for the joint inquiry by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was unanimously created by the 15-member Security Council in 2015, ends on Friday.
Syrian ally Russia has now cast 11 vetoes on possible Security Council action on Syria since the country's civil war began in 2011.
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