Having vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council effort to punish Syria today, Russian officials were critical of the timing of the effort, saying it would have a negative impact on the ongoing UN-backed peace talks in Geneva.
“It is counter-constructive,” insisted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, saying that meetings with the opposition would end up in a negative climate because of the way the resolution, which nominally targeted Syria for chemical weapons use, was put forward.
Russia, along with Turkey and Iran, brokered a ceasefire weeks ago which gave way to some peace talks in Astana, and those have continued with UN talks in Geneva. Though the UN mediators have said they don’t hold out a lot of hope that this round of talks will be more successful than the last one, the Security Council effort clearly wasn’t part of the plan.
There was no surprise that Russia and China both stepped forward on vetoing the resolution, and in a lot of cases, they wouldn’t bother to bring up a resolution to a vote in the first place knowing the veto is coming. Such votes tend to be designed for diplomatic purposes, but in this case the Russians see that purpose as about derailing the talks.
Uh’Murikkkan liars, up to no good once more….
Respect for sovereign nations might start with Syria. Instead we see the same three old
biddies, UK, France and US — sticking their noses into everybody’s business, and when they run low on gossip, then they wsrm up the one from two years ago.
Trully boring. But now it will be time to ACTUALLY fight ISIS and have to deal with the stuff Syria is fighting against for years now. Let us see how will civilians be handled. Will the Kurds be allowed to ethnically cleanse the region? Arabs from the area are already forming self-defense against Kurds. Russia may just continue with military option — and peace deals may be overtaken by reality. Saudi Arabia may have gotten a message — along with a medal. For the first time in decades Foreign Minister visited Iraq to seek its role in bridging relations to Iran. Iran’s official visited Saudi Arabia to discuss the restart of Sunni pilgrimage from Iran. Egypt stopped supporting KSA on a number of fronts. With both ISIS and Al-Qaeda being under attack, other groups that acted independently in order to be in peace talks — are now desparate for cease fire, as the lying is over. Once US gets in business of pushing ISIS back, and Syria and Russia pushed AlQaeda into Idlib pocket — their arms supplies will be over. They cannot afford to wait in limbo too long — as any unplanned provocation may bring army on them, and they will have to surrender.
Thank G-d for Bianka… I’m sure she isn’t correct all the time… but I cannot recall her ever being much wrong in the ten years (I belive it’s been) that I have been following her commentary here.. I can sure think of a few of the suits at aw.c that I”d like to go on a nice looong sebatical and have Bianca take their place for a few years… I just don’t have the time necessary to keep up with all of empire”s crazed undertakings. And I.mean it in.the to the maximum funeral degree. Just dead bodies everywhere & no one is quite sure who they are or what they did (or didn’t do) to be splattered thusly.. Just echos of Operation Pheonix from another War Built on Lies by Uncle Blam… zI suppoze.
Thank you. I mean it, sincerely. I read a bunch of world media, some prominent, some not. Reading is like archeology these days. You just have to dig through a lots of dirt, to find a few nuggets of very useful information. But there is no shortcut. We live in exciting times.
Bianca, everybody, please listen, ISIL WORKED for Obama until just over two years ago.
All this became apparent at today’s UN meeting with the US., France and Britain trying to get Syria.
Meanwhile our glorious foreign minister, Boris, was even worse than usual, attacking Syria.
It is clear this is a FALSE FLAG ATTACK, almost certainly by the French, like other ones that have been perpetrated in the last six years.
They are going after the Syrian government in a big way, following their Regime Change agenda.
This was the incident to make it possible, that’s how war propaganda works,
Rule No. 3 is create atrocities.
Meanwhile, what are they doing about ISIL.? It appears they are using it as an “Antigroup” in a Gladio style operation for the pat two and a half years to achieve their war aims in Syria , but must in any case put the Jihadists back in the box.