Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
24th February, 2012
With the “Friends of Syria” (FOS) grouping sponsored by the Western powers and their Arab allies scheduled to hold its first meeting in Tunis on Friday, Russian diplomacy has shifted gear into a proactive mode. The Kremlin was a beehive of diplomatic activity on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2012
8th February, 2012
During a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that any ‘hasty and unilateral steps’ regarding the unrest in Syria had to be avoided, the Kremlin said in a statement.
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Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2012
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated that the European Union’s decision to impose an embargo on Iran’s oil sector will be “counterproductive.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 16, 2012
14th January, 2012
MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russian former Prime Minister, politician and academic Yevgeny Primakov, affirmed that Russia will not allow the Libyan scenario to be repeated in Syria through Security Council.
In a seminar held in Moscow on Friday, Primakov said that the mechanism used by the NATO in Libya was a very grave precedent, as it used a vague Security Council resolution to legitimize military intervention and support one side in a war in an independent country.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2012
29th December, 2011
The yearender in the geopolitics of energy security ain’t going to be the Afghan oil dealChina struck with Kabul. The dying hours of Wednesday also brought in the news that Russia and Turkey have reconciled their differences over the mammoth South Stream gas pipeline bringing Russian energy to southern Europe.
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Posted by seumasach on January 1, 2012
24th December, 2011
Yesterday Russia increased the pressure against the ongoing British-orchestrated plan to topple the Syrian government. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin bluntly stated that Russia was not going to endorse an arms embargo against the Syrian government, while advocates of such an embargo freely armed anti-government forces.
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Posted by seumasach on December 28, 2011
28th December, 2011
Egypt may join Russia’s probe into the deaths of peaceful Libyans killed by NATO air strikes during its military campaign, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said on Wednesday.
“We are considering this issue and consulting with [our] Russian colleagues and will make a decision after the consultations,” Amr said after a meeting in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Last week, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin urged NATO to investigate civilian deaths in Libya from its bombing campaign, saying the alliance’s claim that there were no civilian casualties was untrue.
His remarks came after The New York Times claimed up to 70 people were killed in Libya during NATO’s eight-month military operation.
Churkin said he has asked NATO to give “a definitive report” to the UN Security Council summing up its activities in Libya. But he said “unfortunately” the alliance only provided “piecemeal, rather perfunctory reports… (that) were not very informative.”
The international NATO-led military operation in Libya began on March 19, two days after the approval of a UN resolution on “targeted measures” to protect civilians.
Libya saw almost ten months of fierce fighting before the opposition Libyan National Transitional Council established control over the country’s territory.
Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed in October near his hometown of Sirte after being captured by NTC forces.
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Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2011
20th december, 2011
Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has asked for a thorough investigation into the deaths of civilians during NATO’s military intervention in Libya earlier this year.
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2011
7th December, 2011
Russia proposed on Wednesday sending its monitors to Syria as part of international efforts to settle the nine-month old political crisis in the Arab country.
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Posted by seumasach on December 5, 2011
2nd December, 2011
Fulfilling a contract signed in 2007, Russia has supplied Bastion coastal missile systems with Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria under a contract signed in 2007, a diplomatic source in Moscow has told Russian media.
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