Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has rejected reports that the negotiations between Russia and the United States on Syria would end with demands for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster.
“Our position on Syria is well-known,” Lavrov said, adding that the talks were aimed at ending the civil war, not on forcing Assad’s ouster. His US counterpart, Hillary Clinton, insisted at the start of the first day of talks that Assad’s ouster was a given.
The talks began last week in Ireland, and today continued in Geneva, though Lavrov insisted that backing off the demand for Assad’s ouster was a precondition for today’s talks. US officials have yet to comment either way.
This suggests that there probably hasn’t been any real progress, and indeed Lavrov has insisted those portraying a deal as imminent are “trying to distort the facts.”
Jason Ditz as as imperialist regime change writer, writes in his final summary statement: "hasn’t been any real progress," – in changing Syrian president …
unbelievable !
Not Syrians decide who is their president, but USA !???
Also the REAL Russian position is not to change or not change the president, because this is regarded as the business of the Syrians. They never did vote for or against him.
The Russians insist at the Geneva agreements about peaceful negotiations of the conflicting parties, but USA and its puppet UN does also ignore this. No wonder: They are behind these foreign terrorist fighters in Syria. They are just tools, get salary, weapons, training and advice what, when and how to crash down Syria. They want war and no peaceful solutions. So these Geneva agreement was just a theater to again fool the world "that any peaceful solution did not work". Same dramaturgy as we experienced in the proxy guerrilla war of NATO war against Yugoslavia+Libya.
Assad is supported by a huge majority of Syrians ! This is never reported here, despite even a poll of its enemies, the Arab dictator league, showed a 55 percent support of Assad. Meanwhile after two years of US/NATO/AL proxy guerrilla warfare, 40,000 deaths and huge targeted civil infrastructure destruction, it is expected that he has 75 percent support, since virtuall no Syrian want those puppet killers and Ismalist extremists to rule Syria for US profit interests.
Syria is a rather secular country. And even former CIA middle East specialist speaks of the brain-death West who wants the Islamist to rule the last remaining secular Arab country.
Anything is proofed, but Jason Ditz permanently ignores this: https://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons…
Not any different than the Rambouillet "talks" prior to NATO attacking Serbia. The argument being that because the Serbians wouldn't roll over and take it up the tail pipe for empire they were thus "defiant" and deserving of death rained down from above. This is the standard American imperial operating procedure.
And how tricky Jason Dietz is writing: his headline statement Russian FM "Insists Future of Assad Not Up for Discussion" is suggesting the interpretation of "Russia insist on Assad" – as if they would ignore the wants of the Syrian people – based on the second transported, but never spoken lie, Assad would not have support of the majority of the Syrians.
I think Jason Ditz gets a high salary for such well balanced lie constructions. At least he does a excellent job to fool even the US antiwar movement here.
You know… I can agree with a lot that you say but it's clear to me you have a "hard on" for Jason and love to nit-pick every word. It's wearisome to say the least and annoying as hell.
We should all have a "hard on" for betrayal; even when the tool is the only target available to our wrath.
I think there is a bit of misunderstanding here. What is being implied is that Russia will not cooperate with the West to remove a head of state and the decision is that of the state's. I am not sure why you are offended by this. I also don't believe the brain-dead West (they are!) wants Islamist rule – they simply want the population of the states to kill each other – they are internalizing the enemy so attention is not focused on the actual enemy. The tragedy is these fighters/terrorists do the bidding of the real enemy.
Obama is 100X worse than Bush as many have said. He was selected by elite for his blackness since targetted countries are mainly people of colored, in addition to support of the sheepleswithin black population happends to be 98 Percent. Moreover, the 'progressive' and 'left' like Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk, Immanuel walerstein ask the sheeples to vote for a baby killer where that thye did. Obama is not from the elite and is timit so is easier to be used. In turn, he is using the Arab dictators. The Arab puppets head of states not only are purchasing Armas from the US and pouring billions of dollars into US broken economy to fund Obama's war crimes against humanity in Muslim countries, but also hiring many terrorists to give blood to fight the US wars to control Islamic countries and Obama's stupid 'regime change' program, while the puppets are offering their own behind to save their power from their onw angry population. هم پول ، هم کون و هم خون
Obama loves this stupidy where helps him to get the vote of the Black population and the anti-anti 'left.
Please. I will eat my shoe if anybody is getting a high salary from antiwar.com.