Posted on 07/10/2009 2:37:47 AM PDT by Scanian
AMONG the benefits from President Obama's effort to "reset" relations with Russia, we're told, is that the Kremlin will join us in pressuring rogue nations from seeking to build nuclear weapons. But even as Obama was making nice in Moscow this week, Russian diplomats in New York have been stonewalling an effort to slap Pyongyang over its weapons proliferation.
A UN committee has struggled for a month now to meet this weekend's deadline for drawing up a sanctions list on North Korea.
The list is supposed to put the teeth in last month's Security Council resolution to punish Pyongyang for its May 25 nuclear test. The idea is to blacklist companies and individuals involved in the North Korean arms-proliferation industry.
Blacklist who, exactly? The committee is supposed to come to a consensus. But frustrated Western diplomats say China and Russia aren't playing along.
That is, America, Britain, France and Japan have proposed a detailed sanctions list -- but China and Russia "are not seriously engaged," as one of the diplomats politely phrased it this week.
Yes, his Chinese and Russian counterparts show up for meetings of the UN sanctions committee. And they don't pretend that Kim Jong Il no longer needs to be punished. Nor do they present a shorter list of candidates for sanctions, or call for less severe sanctions. Instead, they just sit there -- not even commenting on the Western proposals.
So here's the split screen: Our president tells graduates at Moscow's New Economic School that Russia should remain a powerful world player, because challenges like nuclear weapons and proliferation "demand global partnership." He signs nuclear-reduction agreements with the Medvedev-Putin team.
Meanwhile, in New York, Russian diplomats yawn through meetings with their Western colleagues, who toil to solve nuclear problems through the Security Council.
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Our foreign policy is in complete disarray. Never has there been such an incompetent administration, never.
Zero empowers our enemies and/or those who would block our attemps at increased safety.
Sarkozy made clear Wednesday Russia was still dragging its feet over the issue and had pushed for more time before considering a fresh round of sanctions.
They're clearly hoping we become embroiled in a conflict with one or both rogue nations in hopes it furthers their agenda of emerging as a dominant world power.
It’s all deliberate, and staged, for...
...World War Wheeeeeeeee!
(is on the horizon, courtesy of BHO, the 32nd Degree Prince Hall Freemason).
Pssst, NY Post: Don’t use Stall, AIDS, and Stonewall in the same headline, or you show up on the wrong google searches.
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