Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2017
M.K.Bhadrakumar
31st January, 2017
Three things stand out in the respective readouts on the phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. One, they do not contradict each other in content, while the Russian readout is a more detailed version.
Posted in Global peace process | Tagged: US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on August 15, 2016
15th August, 2016
Russian military officials say Moscow is close to reaching an agreement with Washington on how to coordinate fight against militants in Syria’s war-ravaged city of Aleppo.
Posted in Global peace process, Syria | Tagged: End of empire, Obama agenda, Obama's realist turn, Russian diplomacy, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2016
22nd July, 2016
There are clear signs that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is leaving the anti-Russian coalition and will no longer be an obstacle to the US-Russian cooperation in Syria championed by Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterparts, Professor Stephen F. Cohen notes.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 29, 2016
28th February, 2016
MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Many Americans regard the ceasefire in Syria as a defeat, Chairman of the State Duma committee for foreign affairs Alexey Pushkov said.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: End of empire, Obama agenda, Obama's realist turn, Russian diplomacy, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2016
Thierry Meyssan
15th February, 2016
The meeting of the International Syria Support Group seems to have marked the takeover of the Syrian situation by the White House, to the detriment of the « neo-conservatives » and the « liberal hawks ». The final declaration imposes supervision of the UNO by the US and Russia, which removes Jeffrey Feltman from his prerogatives. It imposes free circulation of humanitarian aid and the end of hostilities. The formula chosen legitimises Russian military action, not only against the al-Nusra Front and Daesh, but also against Ahrar el-Sham and Jaysh el-Islam. However, the declaration does not mention the Franco-British project for the creation of a pseudo-Kurdistan.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: end sanctions against Russia!, US Russia cooperation, US-Russia relations, US-Russia strategic partnership | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 15, 2016
M.K.Bhadrakumar
14th January, 2016
The US President Barack Obama sprang a New Year surprise on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by telephoning him Wednesday night. It was a double surprise since the Russian New Year Holiday Week is ending on Thursday, January 14, and Obama rarely makes such gestures; and, secondly, the call signified a virtual U-turn just a day after the US president had made some unfriendly remarks about the Kremlin’s policies and caricatured Russia as undermining the international system.
Posted in Global peace process | Tagged: US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
25th January, 2014
Ukraine is on the boil. The anti-government protests have become confrontational and have drawn blood in the past few days. President Viktor Yanukovich has been so far insisting that a change of leadership is possible only through the presidential election scheduled for March 2015, but that stance has come under growing pressure.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Europe v.Eurasia, Russian diplomacy, the Eurasian Union, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013
Fall-out from the US-Russian entente over Syria will be coming thick and fast. Firstly, of course, from that unhappy band, the Syrian “rebels” now in despair over Obama’s “useless procrastination”.
10th September, 2013
BEIRUT: Syria’s main opposition group denounced as a “political manoeuvre” a Russian plan to head off threatened punitive US airstrikes on Syria by destroying the regime’s chemical weapons.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: Obama's realist turn, Russian diplomacy, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
The best outcome of the ‘2 plus 2′ — foreign ministers plus defence ministers — Russian-American meeting in Washington on Friday could be, arguably, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s disclosure that the US side “confirmed” at the meeting that President Barack Obama did not cancel but merely postponed his ‘bilateral’ with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, which was expected to take place in Moscow early September during his Russia visit in connection with the G20 at St.Petersburg.
Posted in Global peace process, Syria | Tagged: US Russia cooperation, US-Russia strategic partnership | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2013
“the US shifted its position on the core issue; namely, its demand that the Assad regime should quit as a prelude to any dialogue.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th May, 2013
The foreplay of Russian-American high-level exchanges can be very revealing. This time too the two sides indulged in some robust shadow play in the run-up to the overnight “working visit” of the United States Secretary of State John Kerry to Moscow on Tuesday.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: Obama's realist turn, Russian diplomacy, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on November 25, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: russia, US Russia cooperation | Leave a Comment »
