British attempts to seek an end to the bloodshed in Syria were rebuffed by Russia and China on Monday as international divisions appeared to have grown over how to tackle the crisis.
Hillary Clinton described President Assad as "cynical" for hosting Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, on a peacekeeping mission while launching a fresh assault on the town of Iblib Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
By Rosa Prince, New York
7:00PM GMT 12 Mar 2012
A debate on the year-long conflict chaired by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, at the United Nations in New York descended into a war of words between Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, and her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
The increasingly heated tone of the negotiations came despite calls from Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, for the international community to speak with one voice and help Syria "pull back from the brink of a deeper catastrophe."
Opening the meeting, Mr Hague said: "The situation in Syria casts a long shadow over this debate. In the eyes of the overwhelming majority of the world, this Council has so far failed in its responsibilities towards the Syrian people.
"It has failed to address the brutal oppression of peaceful protesters by the Syrian regime. It is time for the Security Council to show unity and to show leadership."
Mr Hague was chairing the Security Council debate because the United Kingdom currently occupies the revolving chairmanship of the UN's ruling body.
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Britain had hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of the debate to accelerate negotiations in a series of meetings on the sidelines, possibly paving the way for a new UN resolution which would set out a pathway towards a transfer of power from the government of President Assad.
But both Russia and China made clear that they do not support regime change, and could not sign up to a resolution that did not also involve a ceasefire by the Syrian opposition.
During angry exchanges, Mrs Clinton said: "We reject any equivalence between premeditated murders by a government's military machine and the actions of civilians under siege driven to self-defence." She added that the Security Council should not "stand silent when governments massacre their own people, threatening regional peace and security in the process."
And Mrs Clinton also described President Assad as "cynical" for hosting Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, on a peacekeeping mission while launching a fresh assault on the town of Iblib.
Mr Lavrov said, however: "Hasty demands for regime change [are] risky recipes of geopolitical engineering which can only result in further conflict.
"At this stage we should not talk about who was the first to start, but rather discuss realistic and feasible approaches which would allow [us] to achieve the ceasefire as a priority."
China's UN ambassador Li Baodong added: "China is against interference in internal affairs in the name of humanitarianism. No external parties should engage in military intervention in Syria and push for regime change."
Russia and China have vetoed two proposed UN Security Council resolutions which backed an Arab League plan for democratic elections to follow the handover of power by President Assad to his deputy.
Moscow says it will not support any plan that does not include a universal ceasefire, and has accused the western world of fuelling the conflict by encouraging opponents of the regime.
After a private meeting between Secretary Clinton and Mr Lavrov, she said: "I pointed out that lack of unity will be dangerous, bloody conflict that will have regional implications." But Mr Lavrov said that it was "dishonest" to blame Russia for the bloodshed and that he would not accept "take or leave it" tactics.
"Ultimatums will not work," he added
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