Kerry meets Saudi king to discuss Syria before Vienna talks

reuters ^ | 5/15/16

[StCloudMoose]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the fragile truce in Syria, before broader talks with Russia, Iran and other countries in Vienna on Tuesday. Kerry has said he hopes to strengthen a "cessation of hostilities" agreement between Syrian government forces and rebels, which has been undermined by fighting in some areas, and to increase humanitarian aid deliveries to besieged areas. On Friday, he said the meetings with the king and the Saudi interior and defense ministers - the two most senior princes - would try "to make sure that we can get this cessation better footed and, frankly, better observed and implemented throughout the country." The United States, Saudi Arabia and some other Western and Gulf states plus Turkey back rebels fighting to remove President Bashar al-Assad, who has military support from Russia and Iran. However, diplomats in the Gulf say Saudi Arabia sees U.S. support for the rebels as inadequate, and fears that Washington may abandon their shared stance that Assad must immediately leave power as part of any negotiated political deal. Kerry and his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir have previously characterized disagreements over Syria as being limited to "tactical differences" not objectives. On Tuesday the United States and Russia will co-chair a meeting of the International Syria Support Group, which includes Arab League and European Union countries as well as Turkey, Iran and China.

[StCloudMoose]

They are meeting again. wow, why do we need to kiss Saudi Arabia’s a$$ weekly? if someone nuked this country, terrorism would drop by 85%

[Just mythoughts]

Will Kerry have to give the Saudis nuclear as well?

[FlingWingFlyer]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry

Reuters had to explain who Kerry was to their low information readers. He also served in Vietnam.

[boycott]

Saudi Arabia has had too much influence on the US regarding Syria.

Saudis are the ones we need to keep an eye on.

[fishtank]

He also married ketchup$$$$$$$$&

[StCloudMoose]

yes and they think that Syria should be a democracy. they should make their own country a democracy first

[jim35]

Fear the living dead. Lurch looks like he’s been artificially reanimated for too long. Rigor mortis is really starting to set in.

[boycott]

yes and they think that Syria should be a democracy. they should make their own country a democracy first

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They don’t really care if Syria is a democracy. It’s just they’ll say anything to get us to do their dirty work for their extremist religious beliefs. They know we’re suckers.

[TigersEye]

Let no one forget that John Kerry is a traitor to his own country...

American Patriots Against John Kerry

The 1970 meeting that John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue.

Kerry met with representatives from “both delegations” of the Vietnamese (North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry’s own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry’s meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s.

According to Corsi, Kerry violated U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. “A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,” Corsi told CNSNews.com.

By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam Warshould be stopped.

[bgill]

Hey, whatever for a free taxpayer paid side trip to visit the Iranian in-laws. Did he take his son in law with him?

[hadaclueonce]

As bad as W was, I still sleep better that Gore and Kerry were never President.

Thank you.

[onedoug]

An enemy regime, and Kerry meets with it...is a theme purposefully built from Vietnam to now on Treason.

[Lionheartusa1]

Kerry Meets Saudi King To Kiss @$$ ,,,, is more like the correct title .

[AdmSmith]

The Saudi Solution. Accommodations are plentiful in the kingdom for Sunni Muslim migrants.

The KSA has many unique attractions for Sunni Muslims. To begin with, it has 100,000 high-quality, empty fiberglass tents that can house about 3 million people in Mina, just east of Mecca. Fireproof and air-conditioned, complete with toilets and kitchens, this unique resource is occupied a mere five days a year by pilgrims on the hajj
http://www.meforum.org/6013/saudi-solution-to-refugees