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On Monday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended Russia’s rejection of a UN resolution condemning the violent crackdown in Syria, saying the UN Security Council was too hasty in putting it to a vote. He told reporters in Moscow after talks with the Bahraini Foreign Minister, “It’s unfortunate that the [resolution’s] co-authors decided to put it to a vote hastily, although we had asked them to delay it for several days so that we could discuss the situation after [Russian Foreign Intelligence Service head] Mikhail Fradkov and I visited Damascus on 7 February. Nothing would have changed if they’d waited three days”. Lavrov and Fradkov are due to hold talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Lavrov’s comments came as the Syrian army launched one the fiercest assaults on the city of Homs in the 11-month uprising. On Monday, the BBC reported that it believes that 15 people are dead so far in the attacks.
Russia and China vetoed a draft resolution criticising Damascus over the weekend, claiming it lacked balance. Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said it targeted Assad’s government, but contained no measures against armed rebel groups. The vetoes drew a barrage of criticism from Western powers and the Syrian opposition. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called them a “travesty”, and the Syrian National Council said Russia and China were “responsible for the escalating acts of killing”. However, on Monday, Lavrov said that Security Council members were seeking to “blame the unrest on somebody” and accused “interested parties” of trying to topple Assad’s regime by encouraging the activities of armed groups and of supplying them with weapons. He also said that Russia was “surprised” at the Council’s rejection of the proposed Russian amendments to the text. He added, however, that Russia continued to support the Arab League’s efforts to halt violence in Syria. On Monday, China also defended its move, saying the proposed resolution wouldn’t help defuse the conflict.
6 February 2012
RIA-Novosti
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120206/171174048.html
Editor’s Note:
Let’s not be coy. The Old Master’s pointing the finger at Langley and saying that they’re shipping arms to the Syrian rebels, just as they did to bin Laden and the Taliban in the ‘80s. He’s simply saying that Russia won’t go along with a Western rape of Syria by the rapacious multinationals and their drooling Western pol enablers. “Sorry, Charlie… Starkist wants tunas that taste good”… and Chilly Hilly doesn’t even have good taste (remember her husband and Monica?). The Syrian people won’t suffer Western invasion and bombing… God bless Russia and China for standing tall.
BMD
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