Posted on 09/15/2015 6:21:15 AM PDT by Trumpinator
West 'ignored Russian offer in 2012 to have Syria's Assad step aside'
Exclusive: Senior negotiator describes rejection of alleged proposal – since which time tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced
Julian Borger and Bastien Inzaurralde
Tuesday 15 September 2015 04.20 EDT
Russia proposed more than three years ago that Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, could step down as part of a peace deal, according to a senior negotiator involved in back-channel discussions at the time.
Former Finnish president and Nobel peace prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said western powers failed to seize on the proposal. Since it was made, in 2012, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions uprooted, causing the world’s gravest refugee crisis since the second world war.
Ahtisaari held talks with envoys from the five permanent members of the UN security council in February 2012. He said that during those discussions, the Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, laid out a three-point plan, which included a proposal for Assad to cede power at some point after peace talks had started between the regime and the opposition.
But he said that the US, Britain and France were so convinced that the Syrian dictator was about to fall, they ignored the proposal.
“It was an opportunity lost in 2012,” Ahtisaari said in an interview.
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Putin is now going to crush ISIS, and the “moderate” Arab leaders are going to look to him to be their new protector. The Persian Gulf is about to become a Russian lake.
Clinton was Sec OF State then. If so WORST SEC OF STATE EVER!!!! How can she pass up on a deal like this?
And who was our Secretary of State at that time??? The same brilliant woman who ran our Benghazi operation on Sept. 11, 2012. Who but the insane would put Hillary Clinton in charge of our nation’s future? She is a disaster.
Wait till Hillary reads this....Let’s take a look at those emails again....
If Trump were president he would have "taken the deal".
I am actually going to email this article to the Trump office.
“Clinton was Sec OF State then. If so WORST SEC OF STATE EVER!!!! How can she pass up on a deal like this?”
Rule 1: The Hillabeast is a low IQ grifter who’d get fired from McDonalds were she not to have boinked the Grifter in Chief.
Rule 2: See Rule 1.
It’s not about Assad stepping aside and another Iran/Russian puppet being put in his place, the US/Israel/Saudi/Turkish alliance wants the country. I don’t know why because they can get a pipeline through Iraq to Turkey to Europe, but they want it, and Iran is next.
Jezebel Killary did same with Libya when negotiations was in place to have Gaddaffy step down. No she needed an ejaculation and by-passed the negotiations. “We came, We saw, He died,” cackle cackle. We see what this treason resulted in like in Central Europe as we speak!!!
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