[VOA News] Russia says it will not vote for sanctions on Syria to try to end the violence there, as Western powers are demanding. At the U.N. Security Council, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and the United States said Thursday that sanctions must be invoked against Damascus
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within 10 days unless the Syrian military stops using heavy weapons against opposition forces.
Security Council members are preparing for a vote on the resolution.
Russia says the Council should pass an alternate resolution that would simply extend the mandate of the U.N. observer mission in Syria for another three months.