Posted on 01/31/2006 1:47:55 PM PST by x5452
Jan 31 2006 3:13PM Hamas should disarm to work in parliament - Lavrov
LONDON. Jan 31 (Interfax) - Russia is in favor of the Hamas movement's full disarmament and believes that it should work in the parliament only if this is completed.
"We are sure that only unarmed groups not involved in military actions should work in the parliament," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists in London.
"We believe that the wider picture should be seen while searching for a settlement in the Middle East and Hamas reflects the situation of the settlement," Lavrov said.
He said he does not exclude the possibility of having contact with Hamas and expressed his hope that a government would be formed and that the parliament will begin to work in two or three months.
Meanwhile the usual suspects are off insisting Russia condons terrorists.
If you are not in Putin's cheer squad, you are a usual suspect. Nice. Have you read Putin's interview where he said that Russia does not rate Hamas as a terrorist organization. And stop sticking labels on the people who do not agree with your point of view, it's childish.
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Time will tell. I sure that Russia will refuse aid to an armed Hamas. If Russia doesn't, well, they support terrorists.
"Meanwhile the usual suspects are off insisting Russia condons terrorists."
Nope, they just sell them nuclear reactors.
We need more paranoia here, ping.
Light Water reactors, just like the one the EU, with our backing, was offerring Iran.
Mi-kha-el, care to add the rest of what Putin said about Hamas? Or would that not support your argument. Only portraying a small portion of what he actually said about Hamas is dishonest. I actually watched his press conference and read the transcript. Much different than what's being published in the MSM. Why would that be?
Light water reactors, like we sold Korea, which cannot make weaponized substances.
They do not dismiss out of hand the elected government however they ahve said they will not aid them if they remain an armed group.
If I selectively cut and paste what Bush says and remove anything that doesn't paint him as a terrorist he will look like one as well, why do you think Farenheit 911 was so popular?
"Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes are Secretly Arming Our Enemies", by Bill Gertz is also an interesting book. This well respected reporter says that 11 million arms (over 100 different types) were sold to Iraq by Russia before the war. THese weapons killed our troops.
Iraq's arms ["The big three arms suppliers were Russia (and the Soviet Union), China and France"]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219679/posts
"Bush confronts Putin on Iraq arms "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/874460/posts
Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1260875/posts
Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel are Russian-made, sold to Syria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548980/posts
RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER CONFIRMS MISSILES SALE TO IRAN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534480/posts
Iran and Russia sign $1 bln defense deal: reports
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1366658
Russia to sell 29 air defense systems to Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533567/posts
Israel worried about possible new Russia-Syria arms deals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509313/posts
Russians help Iran with missile threat to Europe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503209/posts
The Increasingly Intertwined Bear and Dragon
Russia providing Military Technology and Arms to China
http://www.jinsa.org/articles/view.html?documentid=2905
Venezuela kicks off procurement of Russian rifles
http://buscador.eluniversal.com/2005/05/17/en_pol_art_17A561107.shtml
"Moscow supports Tehran in nuclear stand-off"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489084/posts
"Russia in a Hurry to Sell Weapons to Iran"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493375/posts
Russia defends arms
sales to Iran
Moscow says U.S. objects only out of self-interest
[and Syria]
http://www.freedomdomain.com/Templemount/5_30a.html
"Light water reactors, like we sold Korea, which cannot make weaponized substances."
The waste can be processed to weapons grade
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2002/eu_russia_05_24.html
Maxim Shingarkin, a leading Russian nuclear expert, told a Moscow seminar on May 20 that Iran has been sold a Russian nuclear reactor that can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Iran has bought the VVR-1000 nuclear reactor for the Bushehr facility in an $800 million deal and operations are expected to begin by 2005, Middle East Newsline reported..
"The reactor is a source of neutrons," Shingarkin said. "I tell you that any VVR-1000 reactor can be used to produce — without authorization and without the IAEA specialists knowing it — weapons-grade plutonium. There are no engineering or technical complexities and the task is realistic."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4301889.stm
Under the deal Iran has to return spent nuclear fuel rods from the reactor, which was designed and built by Russia.
The clause is a safeguard meant to banish fears that Iran might misuse the rods to build nuclear weapons, a concern of the US, Israel and others.
(Do YOU trust Iran to return the rods???)
Putin is an islamofascist apologist whenever it suits him.
"Light water reactors, like we sold Korea, which cannot make weaponized substances."
The waste can be processed to weapons grade
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2002/eu_russia_05_24.html
Maxim Shingarkin, a leading Russian nuclear expert, told a Moscow seminar on May 20 that Iran has been sold a Russian nuclear reactor that can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Iran has bought the VVR-1000 nuclear reactor for the Bushehr facility in an $800 million deal and operations are expected to begin by 2005, Middle East Newsline reported..
"The reactor is a source of neutrons," Shingarkin said. "I tell you that any VVR-1000 reactor can be used to produce — without authorization and without the IAEA specialists knowing it — weapons-grade plutonium. There are no engineering or technical complexities and the task is realistic."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4301889.stm
Under the deal Iran has to return spent nuclear fuel rods from the reactor, which was designed and built by Russia.
The clause is a safeguard meant to banish fears that Iran might misuse the rods to build nuclear weapons, a concern of the US, Israel and others.
(Do YOU trust Iran to return the rods???)
Islamocommiefascists want a New World Order that doesn't include any America that we can tolerate, I'm afraid.
And old Vlad is one of them. The enemy that is.
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