Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2011
5th October, 2011
Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or “Explanation of Vote” for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation circulated in New York, but there will not be major differences:
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2011
4th October, 2011
Having exposed his presidential ambitions, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke about the prospects for creating the Eurasian union on post-Soviet space. The Western media have already dubbed Putin’s new initiative as an attempt to recreate the USSR.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2011
5th October, 2011
Moscow will oppose any attempt to “abuse” UN Security Council decisions to achieve the overthrow of “undesirable regimes,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2011
Saeb Shaath
5th October, 2011
New York (SaebPress) – Russia and China has vetoed the UNSC resolution on Syria, urging political dialogue instead of proposed tough sanctions on Syria. The veto has outraged the French and the American’s leaders.
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Posted by seumasach on July 27, 2011
Interview with former Russian Foreign Minister
26th July, 2011
SPIEGEL: Mr. Primakov, which Arab country currently worries you the most?
Primakov: Libya. The Western coalition’s attempt to bomb the Gadhafi regime away isn’t backed by UN Resolution 1973 — and it’s not well thought-out in strategic terms. It’s high time for us to find a political solution to the Libyan crisis .
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Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
7th June, 2011
There might have been a difference of opinion between the classical Greek dramatist Aeschylus and British romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley regarding the circumstances of the release of the Titan god Prometheus from captivity: whether it followed reconciliation with Jupiter, as the classicist thought, or a rebellion, as the romantic insisted. In either case, Prometheus was “unbound”.
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Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th May, 2011
The last thing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did before departing for France to attend this week’s Group of Eight summit meeting in Deauville was place a call to Damascus.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2011
Medvedev’s Blunder
Israel Shamir
4th April, 2011
Russia is different. The Americans, the British, the French by and large approve of their forces’ Libya bombing spree (yes, some doubt whether it’s good value for their tax money). The Russians are flatly against it, without ifs and buts. The Russian Ambassador in Tripoli Vladimir Chamov came back to hero welcome in Moscow. President Dmitri Medvedev dismissed him publicly after the Ambassador had sent him a cable. In the five-points cable leaked to the press, the Ambassador called Medvedev’s response to Libya crisis “betrayal of Russian national interests”. (Later, the two sides climbed down a bit: the Foreign Office said Chamov was not “fired”, just “called back” from Tripoli, and that he retains his ambassadorial rank and salary, while Chamov denies he used the word “betrayal”.)
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Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2011
28th March, 2011
Russia condemned Western air strikes on Libyan government forces today, calling them meddling in a civil war and in breach of the UN’s no-fly-zone resolution.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Resolution 1973 – passed by the UN security council on March 17 – had the sole aim of protecting Libyan civilians.
“And yet there are reports – and nobody denies them – of coalition strikes on columns of Gadaffi’s forces, reports about support for actions by the armed insurgents,” Mr Lavrov said. “There are clear contradictions here.
“Intervention by the coalition in what is essentially an internal civil war is not sanctioned by the UN security council resolution.”
Russia could have vetoed the resolution but chose to abstain. The document authorises “all necessary measures to enforce compliance” with the no-fly zones.
But the country’s leaders have expressed concern that the resolution gave Nato forces too much leeway and that it was causing civilian deaths.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said it was like “medieval calls for crusades.”
Mr Lavrov today reiterated Russia’s concern about reports of civilian casualties, which he said had not yet been confirmed, and indicated that Russia wanted UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon’s special envoy Abdelilah al-Khatib to look into them.
Mr Lavrov did not say whether Russia would try to rein in Nato aggression.
But his remarks, made just hours before US President Barack Obama was expected to set out the mission’s purpose and scope in a speech, suggested Russia could step up criticism if Nato takes further steps beyond its mandate.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said last week that the resolution was clear and that any extra action “is illegal.”
Last Wednesday the Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament, called for “an immediate ceasefire and (to) stop deaths and suffering among civilians.”
Libyan rebels emboldened by the air strikes have pushed west along the Mediterranean coast in recent days to retake a series of towns from the government.
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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
24th March, 2011
He can be disarmingly charming. Like any ethnic Uzbek. Plus he has cultivated a great sense of humor, especially the sardonic variety that is a Russian trademark, which sees you through adversities. He was trained in the tricks of his trade at the best professional schools in Moscow.
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