Posted on 11/08/2014 7:41:23 AM PST by Dave346
"Suffice it to say that we do have some disagreements about some of the facts on the ground with respect to Ukraine. We have agreed to exchange some information between us regarding that. We have also agreed this is a dialogue between us that will continue," Kerry told reporters in Beijing.
But he seemed to suggest new Western sanctions against Russia were not imminent.
"The choices Russia makes will decide what happens with respect to sanctions in the long run here," Kerry said, adding he hoped a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine would remain viable.
Russia has denied arming pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine who have broken away from the Kiev government.
Before meeting Kerry in the lead-up to an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov deflected a question about whether Moscow was sending tanks and troops to help the separatists.
Lavrov noted that the U.S. government on Friday said that it was aware of the reports, but could not independently confirm them.
"Even (spokeswoman) Jen Psaki said that the State Department doesnt have the information about this," he said. "Well, if Psaki doesnt have it, I dont."
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Can you say SOROS?
Can you say ignorance in action?
Kerry?
He hasn’t changed one iota since his testimony before the Senate decades ago. He’s the same Mellon-head now as then.
And he’s our genius when it comes to foreign relations.
Heaven help us.
Has everyone forgotten that Putin shot down an airliner full of people and wouldn’t let investigators near the crash because his goons were spoiling the corpses?
As if Putin cares one wit what Kerry has to say.
Russia will get all of America’s secret intelligence on what it knows about the situation in the Ukraine, and America will receive only what the world already knows about the Ukraine. That is what Obama and his Democrats really mean when they are talking about “information exchanges” with Russia and other enemies of America.
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