The European Union drafted a United Nations resolution to call for an end to Turkey’s incursion into Northeastern Syria. However, Russia and the United States vetoed that resolution.
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The German ambassador, Jurgen Schulz, the European Union’s statement out loud:
“We call upon Turkey to cease the unilateral military action.” He added that it would create “fertile ground for the resurgence of Da’esh” in a “significant threat to regional, international, and European security”.
Da’esh is a term for the terrorist group also known as the Islamic State (IS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).