Posted by seumasach on April 19, 2014
Nothing should impede normalisation of Russia’s relations with the West: Putin
19th April, 2014
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said nothing should impede the normalisation of relations between Russia and the West, after ties hit a post-Cold War low due to the stand-off over Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2014
A new cold war led by the USA has become a fashionable theme. However, core US diplomacy has consistently contradicted such a scenario. The USA, more than Europe, needs to reach out to the BRICS for its own salvation. The problem is that vested interests, the imperial state if you like, continue to rely on a strategy of geopolitical tension. But the CIA, the neo-cons, the Israel lobby, the Military Industrial Complex and their congressional representatives have emerged from the fiascos in Syria, Venezuela and Ukraine embittered and weakened. This should enable Obama to pursue policies in accord with US national interests whereby US retreat from empire is rewarded by inward investment from China and others. For that surplus to be available a new motor of global development must emerge which can only be the Eurasian economic space from Shanghai to Lisbon. The resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, the first step of which was completed at Geneva yesterday, will facilitate this happy development. Certainly Russia and China are emerging as leading global players but their prime goal is geo-strategic partnership with the USA. By an agonised path Obama is positioning himself to reciprocate
17th April, 2014
In the present confrontation between Russia and the West over the Ukrainian crisis, the image of the Cold War inevitably comes to mind and the media are obviously fond of it. However, contrary to what it gives us to understand, it’s not Russia that seeks the return of an iron curtain but really the US. An iron curtain separating the old powers and emerging nations; the world before and the world afterwards; debtors and creditors. And this in the crazy hope of preserving the American way of life and the US’ influence over “its” camp in the absence of being able to impose it on the whole world. In other words, go down with as many companions as possible to give the impression of not sinking.
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Posted by seumasach on March 29, 2014
29th March, 2014
The presidents of Russia and the U.S. discussed a U.S. proposal to end the crisis in Ukraine during a bilateral phone call on Friday initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the White House.
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Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014
“The MFA statement also gave the impression that Washington is receptive to the deep anxiety felt in Moscow regarding the ascendancy of ultranationalist Ukrainian groups.”“Lavrov sought Washington’s intervention with the authorities in Kiev to curb these radical groups and Kerry apparently responded that the US was acting and its efforts would yield results. Lavrov and Kerry agreed to maintain further “working contacts” on Ukraine.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th March, 2014
As I wrote in my blog earlier, contrary to the media reports to the effect that the five-hour meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia and the United States in London on Thursday regarding the Ukraine crisis had floundered, the two diplomats have opened a track of serious negotiations.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th March, 2014
When a Russia scholar of great repute, Stephen Cohen of New York University, says that the United States is two steps from the Cuban Missile Crisis and three steps from a war with Russia for the first time, things appear grim. Cohen insists, “We need to get a negotiation going on…” (Excerpts)
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Posted by seumasach on February 24, 2014
So does the U.S. consider Yanukovych deposed and recognize chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Turchynov as the interim president?
“Well, we believe he is the lawfully elected speaker of parliament. The — Mr. Yanukovych had left Kiev and packed up his belongings and left, and his whereabouts are not known. So, he’s certainly not actively leading the country at present.
White House Admits They Can’t Find Yanukovych, Not Ready to Stop Calling Him President
24th February, 2014
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today that the U.S. government still doesn’t know where deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
4th October, 2013
The high drama of the US-Iran thaw and the diplomatic wrangle over Syria’s chemical weapons cannot hide the ground reality that the nature of the war in Syria is dramatically changing. Moscow grasps this and it may have prompted President Vladimir Putin’s remark earlier in the week that things are moving in the right direction.
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Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
20th September, 2013
While Washington and Paris announced – without a mandate from the Security Council – that they were preparing to attack a sovereign state and member of the United Nations, Moscow chose first of all to open a diplomatic dialogue, and then to address the people of the United States directly. This unprecedented approach is the best way to avoid rising tension. So what were the Russian President’s arguments?
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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.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
18th June, 2013
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following a summit of the Group of Eight major industrial nations in Northern Ireland.
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