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John Kerry tells Russia to disarm Ukraine separatists "in hours"
Reuters ^ | 26 June 2014

Posted on 06/26/2014 7:01:43 AM PDT by McGruff

US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Russia on Thursday to disarm separatists in Ukraine within "the next hours" as the European Union prepared to discuss deeper sanctions against Moscow.

Washington and other Western powers have stepped up pressure on Russia to take concrete action to defuse the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where a ceasefire between Russian-speaking rebels and government forces has appeared to be crumbling.

"We are in full agreement that it is critical for Russia to show in the next hours, literally, that they're moving to help disarm the separatists, to encourage them to disarm, to call on them to lay down their weapons and to begin to become part of a legitimate process," Kerry told reporters in Paris.

He added that EU leaders would discuss possible sanctions on Russia at their summit in Belgium on Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at dnaindia.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bhoforeignpolicy; bhorussia; soskerry; ukraine
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Oh noes. Not deeper sanctions.
1 posted on 06/26/2014 7:01:43 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Satire piece?


2 posted on 06/26/2014 7:02:20 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: McGruff

In the manner of Genghis Khan, of course.


3 posted on 06/26/2014 7:03:32 AM PDT by onedoug
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Kerry doesn’t get it. They’re in Ukraine. He wants Russia to jump the border and grab their weapons?


4 posted on 06/26/2014 7:03:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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If not, he will throw his State Department Medal over the fence in protest while wearing his old fatigues and ribbons adorned. [If you served, you get that]


5 posted on 06/26/2014 7:03:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: nikos1121
Not intentionally satire but you'll have to make your own judgment.

You know John Kerry served in Vietnam right?

6 posted on 06/26/2014 7:05:08 AM PDT by McGruff (It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
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he will throw his State Department Medal over the fence in protest

You mean Hillary Clinton's State Department Medal.

7 posted on 06/26/2014 7:05:40 AM PDT by AU72
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To: McGruff

8 posted on 06/26/2014 7:07:32 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Sacajaweau

~Kerry doesn’t get it. They’re in Ukraine. He wants Russia to jump the border and grab their weapons?~

He can also scream invasion in this case.


9 posted on 06/26/2014 7:09:23 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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You mean JEN-JIS Kahn, don’t you?

I used to think Kerry was trying to sound like some high-brow liberal when he pronounced Genghis Khan that way, but now I believe he was just too stupid to know who Genghis Khan was.


10 posted on 06/26/2014 7:09:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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So Russia's supposed to go into eastern Ukraine and disarm the freedom fighters? But.....Russia was told to not even be close to the border.

I'm confused. Maybe Russia should go into the breakaway regions, disarm everyone, and take over the area? Or at least secure their independence? It does sound like a deal Putin can't refuse.

Besides which no one on Earth is going to disarm. Seeing how easy it was for ISIS to overwhelm an area makes it very obvious we're on our own.

11 posted on 06/26/2014 7:10:29 AM PDT by grania
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I totally forgot that Le Kerri was even SOS.

Just shows you how irrelevant the position has become.


12 posted on 06/26/2014 7:12:49 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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That’s what I thought.

Jdg 9:4 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

Jdg 9:14, 15 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

The vain and light people that Obama has hired have devoured this great country.


13 posted on 06/26/2014 7:13:00 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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"Don't make me break out my magic hat, Vladimir."


14 posted on 06/26/2014 7:13:05 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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Did the Russians laugh?


15 posted on 06/26/2014 7:17:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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Kerry is an embarassment!


16 posted on 06/26/2014 7:18:11 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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Is that laughter I can hear coming out of Russia?


17 posted on 06/26/2014 7:26:50 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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Communication is partly what you say and partly how you say it. The ‘how’ guarantees that the Russians will not comply (not that they would have complied anyways).


18 posted on 06/26/2014 7:27:53 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: McGruff

Or what? He’ll give them another stern warning? Or when they don’t do it, he’ll snap at them, “Do you know who I am?!?!?”


19 posted on 06/26/2014 7:29:23 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: McGruff

DISMANTLE the State Department. AFP agenda-driven, deceivers destroying the goodness of the citizens of this republic.


20 posted on 06/26/2014 7:31:55 AM PDT by PGalt
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