Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
Pepe Escobar
25th September, 2013
He came. He listened. And he surfed.
“I listened carefully to the statement made by President Obama today at the General Assembly… [I’m] hoping that they will refrain from following the short-sighted interests of warmongering pressure groups and we can arrive at a framework to managing our differences.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2013
Kaveh Afrasiabi
23rd September, 2013
NEW YORK – Dr Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s new foreign minister, is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting and at the same time advance Iran’s foreign policy priorities at a delicate time in Middle East politics which is wrought with multiple conflicts and endemic insecurities.
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Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2013
«Je souhaite à cet égard que la France retrouve cette indépendance et cette liberté de jugement et d’action qui, seules, lui confèrent une autorité dans cette crise»
RETOUR DE LA VRAIE FRANCE.
20th September, 2013
François Fillon, l’ancien Premier ministre UMP, a critiqué ce jeudi la position de la France à propos de la Syrie devant le président russe Vladimir Poutine, lors d’un déplacement en Russie, provoquant en France de vives réactions de la part de la gauche.
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Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2013
18th September, 2013
Russia’s permanent UN representative has called for the “immediate return” of the world body’s inspectors to Syria to conduct additional investigations into last month’s use of chemical weapons in the country.
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Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2013
“Several Western countries, including the US, viewed the UN report as not leaving any doubts that the Syrian government was responsible for the August 21 use of sarin gas. Russia says those countries are jumping to conclusions and should wait for a final UN report, which is expected to be based on evidence gathered at other sites of alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
UN inspectors were conducting their investigation of those earlier incidents, but their mission was put on pause, as the inspectors were called to probe the latest attack and present an intermediate report on it alone. Moscow says that if all evidence is taken into account, the August 21 chemical attack appears to be a rebel provocation.”
West-accused Syria gives Russia new evidence of rebel hand in chem attacks
18th September, 2013
Damascus has presented to Russia additional evidence regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Earlier Western countries accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons against civilians, citing a controversial UN report.
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Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2013
I have no means to confirm these Debka claims, but I must agree that this kind of diplomacy is consistent with that followed by Obama with Russia over Syria. In any case, I expect Obama to move quickly to resolve the Iran stand-off and move onto the Palestinian issue.
Keep components, just promise not to weaponise them
18th September, 2013
The moderate mien of Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani has had its intended effect – even before nuclear dialogue began. President Barack Obama had only one demand of Tehran: “Iran would have to demonstrate its own seriousness by agreement not to weaponise nuclear power,” he said Wednesday, Sept. 18. He thus took at his word Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who declared the day before: “We are against nuclear weapons. And when we say no one should have nuclear weapons, we definitely do not pursue it ourselves either.”
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Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th September, 2013
The White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a carefully worded remark on Monday, “As of now, the president [Barack Obama] is not expected to meet his Iranian counterpart at the UN Assembly.” The Iranians also maintain there is no “plan” at the moment.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2013
“Washington and Moscow have also agreed to adopt a UN Security Council resolution backed up by the threat of unspecified sanctions in the event of Syria’s noncompliance.
Russia, however, has said that it will block any move to write an explicit authorization for the use of military force into the resolution.”
16th September, 2013
Russia has warned that threatening the Syrian government with military force and UN resolutions could wreck pea
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2013
“Putin anticipates that the ‘war camp’ is in up in arms against Obama’s latest decision to relegate the decision to mount “limited action” against Syria as his Plan B. Putin’s public diplomacy offensive is actually in defence of Obama”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s extraordinary move to reach out to the American public opinion in the NYT Op-Ed regarding Syria underscores that the Kremlin anticipates a new dynamics on the peace track.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2013
14th September, 2013
A court indictment by the Turkish prosecutors into the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian rebels has once again highlighted fears this week that sarin toxic gas was used by the opposition and not the Assad government.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2013
..and makes more enemies.
Cailean Bochanan
14th September, 2013
After an apparent drift towards military action Obama has shown that he is after all intent on a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis working closely in tandem with Moscow. This is extremely good news: Obama had an open door to start another war but chose not to enter. Good news except , of course, for the War Party.
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