Churkin said the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon was too urgent to wait for more negotiations.
"I can't see us accepting this French draft of this resolution, " Churkin told reporters late Monday.
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Diplomats said Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin made the latest announcement at a closed-door meeting of the council.
Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who is the current president of the council, described the resolution as an "appropriate measure".
Churkin said the three-day cease-fire would help energize diplomats and politicians and focus their minds on finding a solution.
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current council president, said the council would vote on the draft sanctions resolution Thursday morning.
Vitaly Churkin said it was crucial for monitors to be on the ground.
Mr. Churkin disputed that point, however, saying that the mediator would be appointed by Mr. Annan, not the Syrian government.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the proposed U.N. resolution, drafted by French officials, was lacking in a "serious number" of areas.
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Khalilzad then asked Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin whether the Russians were seeking "regime change" in Georgia with the military operation they launched Friday.
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Mr. VITALY CHURKIN (Russian Ambassador to the U.N.): We are also extremely concerned, profoundly upset by the fact that we have this humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Lebanon.
But Russia's Vitaly Churkin described as a significant shortcoming the lack of a clause in the draft treaty about banning the supply of weapons to non-state entities.
Well, Russia's UN Ambassador, Vitali Churkin, said that Russia was introducing the resolution because it said the crisis in Lebanon is reaching what he called catastrophic proportions.
Churkin repeated Russia's position that it is responding to Thursday's Georgian attack on South Ossetia, which, although inside Georgia, has an autonomous government that is backed by Moscow.
Georgia's ambassador, Irakli Alasania, said Churkin's meaning was clear enough.
Russia did not prevent the adoption of the resolution, but Churkin said he was convinced that an immediate ceasefire was the best way to stop the loss of life.
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But Churkin drew a rebuke from other Security Council members, including its current president, after he questioned the objectivity of a top U.N. official who briefed ambassadors on the conflict in Georgia.
Mr. VITALI CHURKIN (Russian Ambassador to the U.N.): We were trying to make sure that this resolution does reflect what is a basic international, legal principle, and that is that what is not prohibited is permitted.
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
Russia had "very clearly and consistently explained" that it would not accept a resolution that "would open the path for pressure of sanctions and further to extend military involvement in Syrian domestic affairs, " said Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations.
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Mr. CHURKIN: By the end of 72 hours, we hope that there is going to be a deal, that there is going to be a big draft resolution for full-fledged cessation of hostilities, charting the course towards the political process which will bring about peaceful resolution of this crisis.
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