22nd May, 2013
The core ministerial members of the “Friends of Syria” group is due to meet in Amman on Wednesday, in a bid to put forward a solution that will bring the ongoing violence in Syria to an end, officials said.
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“Friends of Syria” to discuss peace proposal in Amman talks
Posted by seumasach on May 22, 2013
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The global peace process begins
Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
21st May, 2013
As the Syrian army continues to reclaim its control over sovereign territory the West faces complete failure and humiliation. Failure because utter hubris has led us into overreach and humiliation because defeat has exposed the nefarious nature of our engagement with Salafist terrorists and NATO death squads and our complicity with, amongst other things, the ethnic cleansing of Christians, our presumed co-religionaries. All that matters now is that realism prevail and we go into reverse gear. We must end our aggression against Syria and we can do so under the cover of a “peace process” being provide for us by the Russians. This allows us to pose as mediators between a legitimate government which we have tried and failed to overthrow and the armed gangs which we have sponsored to that end. We have been given a lifeline, a chance to repackage ourselves as bringers of peace rather than murder and mayhem. Let us take this opportunity with open arms!
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Russia calls for patience on new Syria conference
Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013
TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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‘US, Turkey, Israel made strategic errors on assessments of Syria situation’
Posted by seumasach on May 21, 2013
Hubris leading to a fall. Now the aggressors have to pick up the peaces of this dreadful mess they’ve got themselves into. They have been exposed as sponsors of Islamic terrorism, apologists for the ethnic cleansing of Christians and bringers of chaos and mayhem in the name of democracy. This is a disgraceful end to the imperial project but all that matters now is that realism should prevail and a global peace process based on a strategic partnership between the US and Russia be initiated. Obama, I think, has understood this but hardline elements and vested interests fear the consequences of retreat.
An Israeli website has said in an article that the US, Turkey, and Israel had made “strategic errors” on their assessments of the situation in Syria.
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Obama annoys allies over Syria talks
Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th May, 2013
The Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan’s visit to Washington on Thursday was expected to put pressure on the Obama administration to take a tougher stance against the Syrian regime. Erdogan was quoted as seeking the imposition of a US-led ‘no-fly-zone’ in Syria and increased arms supplies to the rebel fighters. In the event, however, Obama stood his ground and insisted there is no “magic formula” to resolve the crisis. Of course, he couched the rebuff in extravagant diplomatic niceties during the joint press conference in the White House, but it was a rebuff nonetheless.
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‘Russian arms defend Syria’
Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2013
18th May, 2013
On 11 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that his country was completing its delivery of surface-to-air missiles to Syria. “Russia is not planning to sell – Russia has sold and signed contracts a long time ago, and is completing supplies of the equipment – which is anti-aircraft systems, according to the already signed contracts,” Lavrov told reporters in Warsaw.
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‘Turkey bogged down in terror quagmire’
Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2013
18th May, 2013
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan went to Washington this week with a shopping list for more direct American intervention in the NATO regime-change operation in Syria.
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Kerry Warns Assad
Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2013
The problem with miscalculating, as the Americans have over Syria, is that you end up mired in double-speak. To translate Kerry’s bizarre “war on terror” rhetoric: if you don’t negotiate with Al Qaida, who have no intention of negotiating with you, then we will increase our support for Al Qaida. In practice, of course, the Americans will come up with some more or less respectable “opposition” leader to front negotiations with Assad but are worried that the Syrians won’t bother to show up since they are winning anyway. The Americans need the peace conference to cover for their defeat
More Help to Rebels If You Do Not Negotiate
John Glaser
Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad that if it chooses not to participate in upcoming international negotiations aimed at ending the country’s two-year conflict, then “the opposition will be receiving additional support.”
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Peace in Syria? Only if the arsonists become fire-fighters
Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2013
British journalists of integrity are few and far between: Neil Clark is one of them.
Neil Clark
15th May, 2013
The prospects of a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis is still a long way off. We won’t get an end to the violence until the foreign powers who have been fuelling the conflict, the US included, radically change their policies towards the country.
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Cameron threat to prosecute oil bosses
Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2013
Could this be the beginning of the long role-back against corporate encroachments into every aspect of British society and economy. As always there is some unaccountable body, here the so-called The Office of Fair Trading playing a somewhat questionable role. There is an obvious prima facie case for price fixing since pump prices only go up whilst oil prices go up and down. Instead of politician-bashing all the time we urgently need to focus attention on regulatory and supervisory bodies
15th May, 2013
The Prime Minister said he will urgently look at “extending criminal offences” to cover market manipulation in the energy sector, after BP and Shell were raided by European authorities on suspicion of rigging oil prices.
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Anti-Syria position at UN weakens
Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2013
All five BRICS, Brazil,Russia,India,China and South Africa voted against or abstained, reflecting the inexorable shift in global power away from the West. The commentaries of Amnesty International represent an a priori position and can be discounted. This resolution is as the Russians pointed out destructive but not nearly as destructive as the remaining wreckers would have wished. By the way, the “regime” in Syria certainly doesn’t appear to be “tottering”
Skeptics multiply as UN vote condemns Syria
Thalif Deen
16th May, 2013
UNITED NATIONS – When the 193-member General Assembly voted on Wednesday to condemn the beleaguered government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, there was an increase in the number of skeptics who neither supported nor opposed the tottering regime in Damascus.The resolution, which is legally non-binding, was adopted by a vote of 107-12, compared with 133-12 last August.
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