11th June, 2012
Israel has engaged in a publicity stunt against the Syrian government in an apparent move to promote military intervention in the Arab country.
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Israel engages in publicity stunt to encourage military intervention in Syria
Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2012
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Germany against military intervention in Syria
Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2012
9th June, 2012
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle reiterated Berlin’s opposition to a possible foreign military intervention in Syria, focusing on the fact that such measures might engulf the entire Middle East.
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France backs new Syria ‘Contact Group’: foreign ministry
Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2012
The crisis of european leadership has, if anything, intensified with Hollande’s accesion. Assuming he really intends to build bridges to the BRICS countries it is difficult to interpret the appointment of Fabius and the renewal of a hawkish line on Syria. Equally, the acceptance of this effectively Russian initiative with the proviso of the exclusion of Iran, a key player in any political solution, shows a contradictory stance. Perhaps the legislative elections will clarify the position: Hollande is constrained by his leftist base which is rabidly liberal imperialist and which has rallied in support for the “Syrian opposition” and in condemnation of Russia and China as supposed facilitators of war crimes in Syria.
8th June, 2012
France backs UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s bid to bring key powers into a contact group on the Syria crisis, but it opposes bringing Iran into the group, the foreign ministry said Friday.
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Coups de semonce russes
Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2012
Pour faire baisser la tension, la France a immédiatement accepté la proposition russe de participation à un Groupe de contact ad hoc. Washington a dépêché en urgence Frederic C. Hof à Moscou. Contredisant les propos tenus la veille par la secrétaire d’État, Hillary Clinton, M. Hof a à son tour accepté l’invitation russe.
LE CONFLIT SYRIEN RISQUE DE DÉGÉNÉRER EN GUERRE MONDIALE
Thierry Meyssan
9th June, 2012
La crise syrienne a changé de nature. Le processus de déstabilisation qui devait ouvrir la voie à une intervention militaire légale de l’Alliance atlantique a échoué. Ôtant leur masque, les États-Unis ont publiquement évoqué la possibilité d’attaquer la Syrie sans l’aval du Conseil de sécurité, comme ils le firent au Kosovo. C’était feindre d’ignorer que la Russie de Vladimir Poutine n’est pas celle de Boris Eltsine. Après s’être assuré du soutien chinois, Moscou a tiré deux coups de semonce en direction de Washington. La continuation des violations du droit international par l’OTAN et le CCG risque désormais d’ouvrir un conflit mondial.
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Annan plan ‘only chance for peace’ but stalled by intervention supporters – Lavrov
Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2012
External players are goading opposition in Syria to military action; this may lead to a Libyan scenario, the Russian Foreign Minister says. Moscow is calling for an international conference “under the UN umbrella” to implement the Annan plan.
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Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change
Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2012
This cold assessment by leading US think-tank not only debunks the media narrative but provides a chilling insight into the mind of the Beast. Here we learn that:
-the diplomatic solution is a regime change option. The US is engaged in “coercive diplomacy”
-they plan “crippling economic sanctions” to “wake everyone up”.
-they fear Washington’s policy may not remove Assad but only produce “a prolonged and bloody stalemate”.”The US might calculate that it is worthwhile to pin down the Assad regime and bleed it”.
-Assad’s survival would be a victory for Iran.
-France is singled out to be a member of a contact group in the worthy company of Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. This smaller group must replace the existing”Friends of Syria” group which is evidently divided over aims.
-“An Israeli contribution to the coercion campaign… must be carefully handled”. Israeli intelligence “could work behind the scenes to undermine Assad’s regime and bolster the opposition”
-they want the “Free Syria Army” to become the Syrian army under a new regime.
– backing the opposition in Syria is analogous to “bleeding the Soviets” in Afghanistan
-they are disillusioned with Turkey: all words , no action.
-“U.S. and allied association with the opposition would make it difficult to walk away from them and from Syria if, as is likely, they continue to suffer set- backs or slaughter at the hands of regime forces.” In other words, they stand to be exposed if they don’t finish the job.
Middle East Memo
March 2012
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Intervention in Syria Has Nothing to do with Humanitarian Concerns
Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2012
PROXY WAR WITH IRAN AND RUSSIA: Intervention in Syria Has Nothing to do with Humanitarian Concerns
FDD’s Clifford May admits Syria is a proxy war with Iran and Russia, Neo-Cons in bed with Al Qaeda. Human rights merely a pretense.
Tony Cartalucci
8th June, 2012
Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Clifford May in an article titled, “The Battle of Syria: Assad’s survival would be a victory for Iran — and a defeat for the US,” openly dispels the commonly held notion among the West’s remaining public support, that their meddling in Syria’s ongoing strife has anything to do with humanitarian concerns. In fact, May openly states that defeating Syria as a proxy of Iran is far more important than “the dearth of sincere Muslim freedom fighters” or “humanitarian concerns.”
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Kofi Annan warns against military intervention in Syria
Posted by seumasach on June 8, 2012
8th June, 2012
Joint UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has warned against foreign military intervention in the country, saying that the Syrian people should determine their own future.
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‘Foreign-funded terrorists to blame for Syria atrocities’
Posted by seumasach on June 7, 2012
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Intervención del representante de Cuba en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos sobre matanza en Hula (Siria)
Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2012
Intervención del representante permanente de Cuba, embajador Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, durante la 19na sesión especial del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, titulada “Deterioro de la situación de erechos humanos en la República árabe Siria y la reciente matanza en Hula”. Ginebra, 1º de junio de 2012
5th June, 2012
Señora Presidenta:
Cuba sigue con atención la situación en torno a Siria y su repercusión internacional, consciente de que la información mayormente disponible es parcial, imprecisa y objeto de frecuente manipulación.
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No talks between Moscow, US on al-Assad ouster – Russian Foreign Ministry
Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2012
5th June, 2012
Russia is not in negotiation with the US on the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Tuesday. “No, we are not conducting such negotiations,” he said, as cited by RIA Novosti. A delegation of the US State Department will arrive in Moscow this week to discuss the Syrian conflict. Bogdanov also said that the issue of turning the UN observer mission in Syria into a peacekeeping mission is not on the agenda at present.
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