The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) convened an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and a North Korean artillery attack on a South Korean island in the Yellow Sea.

Diplomatic sources say Britain, supported by the U.S. and France, have proposed a UNSC statement that “deplores” the North’s attack on Yeonpyeong Island, but China and Russia have refused to get on board with any statement that denounces North Korea.

Russia, meanwhile, circulated a statement calling on all parties to “exercise maximum restraint” and urging for a resumption of dialogue and a resolution of all problems exclusively through peaceful diplomatic means. The Western side refused to adopt any statement that does not denounce the North for its attack.

A South Korean diplomat says he doesn’t expect an agreement on the issue. He said it will be difficult to narrow differences between the Western side, seeing North Korea's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island to kill civilians as the cause of the rising tensions, and the Chinese and Russian side, which considers South Korea's live-fire drills as having heightened regional tensions.