Posted on 10/26/2005 2:36:40 PM PDT by lizol
Russia says will defend Syria against U.N. sanctions
MOSCOW - Russia, Syria's close ally since Cold War times, will do all it takes to block any attempt to impose economic sanctions on Damascus, a Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
The United States and France threatened Syria with economic sanctions earlier this week if Damascus did not cooperate fully with a U.N. probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. "Russia will do everything necessary to stop attempts to introduce sanctions against Syria," spokesman Mikhail Kalmynin told Interfax news agency and other Russian media on the sidelines of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's trip to Israel.
Lavrov made no mention of this stance at a news conference in Jerusalem, and reiterated that Russia had called on Syria to cooperate with the U.N. investigation. Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, angered the United States earlier this year by announcing plans to sell advanced missile systems to Syria, which Washington has accused of having links to terrorism.
A draft resolution, also backed by Britain and circulated to the 15 U.N. Security Council members, demands Damascus detain possible suspects in the assassination probe and make them available to U.N. investigators, who have complained about Syria's cooperation. If Syria does not do this, the text says, the Council would consider "further measures", such as economic sanctions, "to ensure compliance".
Lavrov will seek at next week's discussions at the Security Council in New York to make sure any resolution calls for the investigation to be fair and objective, Kalmynin said. "Russia will accept the conclusions in this international report," Lavrov said during a news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. "Russia calls on Syria to cooperate with the Mehlis committee ... President Putin said as much in his telephone conversation with Bashar Assad yesterday."
"We are also certain that the Security Council will support our position," added Lavrov, whose comments in Russian were communicated to reporters in Hebrew by a translator. Both U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have refused to rule out the possibility of military action against Syria, but said Washington has not exhausted its diplomatic options.
can someone please tell WHY there is a U.N. ????????
honest to God the democrats couldn't even build a more worthless body of government if they tried.
What the hail?
Putin regime actions only gives Russia a bad name among civilized world. To defend the Islamic terror sponsor who is credibly accused in the involvement of assassination of the fmr. Lebanese president and numerous other Islamist terror activities against Israel and other countries is simply indefensible. Syria and the likes will return gratitude to Russia by financing or arming Islamist insurgency in North Caucasus and elsewhere.
The sad thing is that Antiamericanism is too strong among Putin ex-KGB circle to see the dangers of supporting Islamonazi regimes. The regime will work against the very interest of iys own country just to stick up to United States--very sad and pathetic.
Im not surprised. Especially since hearing this:
Russia to expand cooperation with Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509732/posts
The cold war was never over. Russia just laid low and rebuilt with a new alliance called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
can someone please tell WHY there is a U.N. ????????
honest to God the democrats couldn't even build a more worthless body of government if they tried.
Well wasn’t it????????? I mean, of the 17 individuals identified by the U.S. State Department as having helped shape U.S. policy leading to the creation of the United Nations, all but one were later identified as secret members of the Communist Party USA. The U.N.'s first secretary-general and orchestrator of the San Francisco conference was the man later convicted and exposed as a Soviet agent, the U.S.’s own, Alger Hiss.
All that entertaining Putin at the Crawford Ranch for NOTHING
Maybe he wanted popcorn like Teddy got
We need to have up or down votes in the Security Counsel. If Russia wants to veto fine let them. They can then stand and defend their decision to the world and everyone can have another abject lesson in how useless the UN is.
Not bringing these issues to a vote is undermining the US internationally and giving cover to countries like Russia, who are gladly putting profit before world security and stability. Let them veto, and then let them try to justify their actions.
The UN does not want up or down votes unless they can guaranty the outcome. Its time to put these countries on record, you either support terrorist regimes or you don’t.
I don’t care one way or the other if Russia vetos as it will ultimately have no bearing on our actions. But it would be helpful to put these countries on record that in the end they support terrorists regimes.
Economic Sanctions have never been as effective as a little Shock & Awe.
If my memory of history is accurate, Russia failed to get into Iran as they failed to get into Afghanistan, and after having to watch the US slip in to Afghanistan so easily, the stops have been pulled out in Moscow to avoid it happening again in Iran or Syria.
Liberals want another Vietnam, and Putin is ready to give it to them.
Perhaps because the Truman Administration commissioned a Soviet agent embedded in the upper echelons of our government (Alger Hiss) to represent us in creating the monster.
Eze 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
It is foretold by the prophets in the Bible that Russia will align itself with Iran, Syria, and the other Islamic nations, against Israel in the latter days. (This is already happening guys as you can see!)
It is interesting that God himself will bring Russia, Iran and all those with them to attack Israel, all a set up, but we are the ones who will see this happen that was first prophecied in 550 BC.
This is when islam will see that Jehovah is God and not allah!
It is time that Americans understood that Russia is an oriental nation and has rarely ceased to be other than an oriental despotism. It only has to the West by happenstance. The Russian Orthodox Church is Byzantium in modern dress with all the trappings of mysticism and little of the love of Christ. The people are primitives, drunks, and wastrels; don't belive it? Check the Russian immigrant populations in Brooklyn. The fact that Russia has intelligent scientists means no more than the fact there are intelligent scientists in Kashmir. We should have learned what Europeans know: You trust a Russian at your own risk.
"The people are primitives, drunks, and wastrels; don't belive it? Check the Russian immigrant populations in Brooklyn."
Then why would you talk to me--the American of Russian background and hence primitive in your logic -:))) ? If you dig a bit deeper, Russian Population of America (Russian Jews or Ethnic Russians) which is contrary to popular opinion is not confined to Brooklyn but spread across the US. You can find Russians in the offices of large companies, etc, working in such "primitive" jobs as programmers/system analysts, accountants, engineers, highly skilled workers, etc. I work for a large company called Hewitt Associates, and I know a bunch of Russians working there. I also saw them in a number of other companies. Of course if you go to the places where Russians go to drink you'll find plenty of drunken Russians many of whom the after getting sober will go to work on "primitive" jobs -:)))
Well--go for example to the Chicago where White Sox parties are under way in sports bars or at streets, and you can find a plenty of ordinary Americans of completely non-Russian background getting boozed. Everybody wants to be a little primitive once in a while--our primeval ancestors kicking in -:)))) Irish are not exactly examples of sobriety especially on St. Patrick Day--or are they -:))))
There is a veneer of civilized Westernized Russians in Russia, and in the United States. It is a very thin veneer.
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