Back to the Cold War?
Barack Obama has managed to re-set relations with Russia right back to the Cold War. "Russia is against any UN Security Council resolution on Syria," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told journalists at a briefing in Moscow.What could go wrong?
"We do not believe the Syrian issue is a subject for consideration by the Security Council, let alone the adoption of some kind of resolution," Lukashevich said.
Britain, France, Germany and Portugal have floated a new draft resolution condemning Syria as the United States and its allies seek to raise the pressure on President Bashar Assad's government to end its violent crackdown on protesters.
Lukashevich stopped short of saying Russia would use its veto power as a permanent UN Security Council member to doom any Syria resolution if it comes to a vote.
Some diplomats have said they thought Moscow could be persuaded to abstain, as it did in a March vote on the resolution that authorized military intervention in Libya.
But Lukashevich said that even a discussion in the Security Council could increase tension in Syria, and that any resolution criticizing Damascus would amount to tacit support of "armed extremists" opposing the government.
"This does not fit the role of the United Nations," he said.
China was expected to join Russia in voting against a draft resolution at the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency rebuking the Arab state for three years of stonewalling of a probe into a site bombed by Israel in 2007.
Labels: Chinese veto, Russian veto, Syria, Syrian nuclear program, Syrian uprising, United Nations Security Council
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:55 PM
1 Comments:
Looking at this situation completely objectively, I do not blame the Russians for their actions; they naturally want to influence events and countries their way. The West has double standards and pretends that what is happening in Syria and Libya is unique, when Iran is the worst perpetrator of these monstrous acts against their own people. But neither Obysmal or EU say one word. If they had stepped in in some way when the Iranian Green movement erupted in 2009, and helped them change THAT government, they would have blind-sided Russia and stopped the rise of Hezbollah and Hamas. But no, not one of them has even mentioned what is going on in a country that truly is a prison camp!!
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