The Facts about Syria and the UN's security council

So I believe yesterday, or the day before yesterday, I made a post about Russia and China having Veto'd the UN's security council decision against Syria. (you can scroll down to check that out), but anyway I thought maybe you'd like to learn some of the facts about this whole thing.
So I checked out Aljazeera and I got to learn myself, some of the facts, here they are:


Syria and the Security Council facts:

• On Saturday, 13 countries voted for the resolution proposed by European and Arab nations. Russia and China vetoed it.
• The demand for the Syrian president to resign had been dropped from the draft
• Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the UN, said the Western nations behind the resolution were "calling for regime change, pushing the opposition towards power"
• Earlier on Saturday, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that "measures must be taken to influence not only the government ... but also the armed groups, because unless you do it both ways, you are taking sides in a civil war"
• Moscow and Damascus have been strategic partners for decades
• Moscow is a major arms supplier to Damascus
• Activists said more than 200 people had been killed in the city of Homs on Friday. That number has since been revised to 179
• There are conflicting reports of how the attack on Homs started, but it is thought to be the deadliest since the uprising began 11 months ago
• The reports of violence in Homs prompted demonstrators to storm Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East