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UN Security Council adopts motion to deploy monitors
20 December 2016 14:44 GMT
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a motion to deploy monitors to oversee the evacuation of residents from eastern Aleppo.
Moscow agreed to vote for the motion after previously threatening to veto the emergency resolution following intense negotiations between Russia and France.
United Nation observers will now be deployed to parts of eastern Aleppo to oversee and monitor the last remaining evacautions.
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