UNITED NATIONS, October 17. /TASS/. The UN Security Council has rejected the Russian proposal for a resolution on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, according to a TASS reporter.

The five votes cast for the proposal by Russia, China, UAE, Gabon and Mozambique were insufficient for it to pass. The UK, the US, France and Japan opposed the proposal, while Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana, Malta, Switzerland, Ecuador abstained.

Following the vote, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya described the Security Council as a “hostage to ambitions of Western countries.”

“This is the only reason why it failed to send a clear and strong collective signal aimed at deescalating the situation,” the diplomat said.

According to US envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US voted against the proposed resolution because it failed to condemn Hamas. Nebenzya told reporters before the vote that Russian proposal didn’t mention the radical group because Moscow focused on humanitarian issues.