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Russia vetoed a UN security council motion declaring the Crimea referendum invalid.

Photograph: VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images 4.49pm GMT Summary Russia vetoed a UN security council motion declaring the Crimea referendum invalid.

Blair's attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, rightly rejected this claim for the US right to "regime change", but came up instead with a pettifogging point that UN Resolution 1441 might allow "all necessary means" to remove Saddam without any further security council motion.

This same security council has unanimously passed motion after motion, most recently in December 2015, vowing to protect civilians in Syria.

Kay had been called in with other ambassadors and senior diplomats of the other members of the security council who voted for the motion or abstained, including the US ambassador Dan Shapiro, to be reprimanded for supporting a resolution that reiterated the view of the international community that Jewish settlements are illegal and an obstacle to peace.

Russia on Monday called an emergency session of the UN security council to vote on a Russian motion calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine.

He said the U.N. security council was scheduled to discuss a motion on Ukraine later Saturday, but acknowledged a likely Russian veto.

The G7 meeting became a focus largely because of the impossibility of getting measures through the UN security council; in February China and Russia vetoed a motion on chemical weapons that would have introduced sanctions against Syrian military individuals and banned the sale or supply of helicopters, used to drop barrel bombs containing chlorine.

Existing observers were refused entry to Crimea by pro-Russian checkpoint guards.On Saturday, Russia vetoed a US-drafted motion in the UN security council in New York, which had declared the Crimea referendum invalid.

The SNP motion says that the UN security council resolution providing a mandate for weapons inspection in Iraq does not authorise military action.

He said that the terms of the motion passed by the Labour conference in September, which called for a UN security council resolution, had been met.