Vassily Nebenzia (L, front), Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations and president of the Security Council for the month of September, chairs a Security Council meeting on Syria at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 19, 2019. The Security Council on Thursday voted on two competing draft resolutions on a cease-fire in Syria's Idlib, but failed to adopt either of them. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)