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UN Security Council Approves Resolution on Syrian Peace Process
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) ^ | December 18, 2015 | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)

Posted on 12/19/2015 12:12:40 AM PST by WhiskeyX

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution drafted by the United States and Russia that endorses an international roadmap for a Syrian peace process.

A resolution's text was hammered out at a New York hotel during a December 18 meeting of 20 foreign ministers that was convened by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura.

The resolution calls on the United Nations to bring together representatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and moderate opposition groups that have been fighting Assad's regime for nearly five years.

It suggests the peace talks could start as soon as January.

"This council is sending a clear message to all concerned that the time is now to stop the killing in Syria and lay the groundwork for a government that the long-suffering people of that battered land can support," said Kerry.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: russia; securitycouncil; syria; un

1 posted on 12/19/2015 12:12:40 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

UN Peace Negotiations are Successful!

-Headlines we’ll never read


2 posted on 12/19/2015 12:22:50 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: WhiskeyX

“If a tree falls in the woods...”


3 posted on 12/19/2015 12:29:01 AM PST by twister881
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To: WhiskeyX

***Moscow and Iran support Assad, while key backers of the Syrian opposition — including the United States, European nations, and Saudi Arabia — insist he must leave power.***

Yep. We created this mess and travesty.

Effing joke and a Yuge travesty....


4 posted on 12/19/2015 1:22:05 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Another "kill them with paper cuts Kerry/Obama/leftist move" that will work. Not!

Everyone laughs in your face Kerry.
5 posted on 12/19/2015 1:27:24 AM PST by ssfromla
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To: WhiskeyX

Call the ISIS to the peace table? ISIS will have their biggest laugh ever. Maybe they will chop a few heads for the negotiators to throw some skin into the game.


6 posted on 12/19/2015 1:51:06 AM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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This says they’re bringing the “moderate” Syrian rebels to the peace table. Who knows? Maybe they can find three or four of them.


7 posted on 12/19/2015 1:54:46 AM PST by grania
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To: WhiskeyX
A pile of angry, arrogant tin pot dictator pedophile slave traders and outcasts who are given an equal voice with civilized nations in the confines of a corrupt deviant criminal organization who are dictating world events and future and present scams
8 posted on 12/19/2015 3:34:48 AM PST by ronnie raygun (If we dont stand we will fall hard)
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To: Vendome

Does this mean we officially speak for al Nusra, Ahrar al Sham, and the entire Jaysh al Fateh coalition?

It’s a shame that I’m not asking in jest.


9 posted on 12/19/2015 4:00:41 AM PST by fiftymegaton
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To: WhiskeyX

Assad’s been given his walking papers is the way a number of pundits see this, at least France was attacking ISIS in this.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/kerry-assad-syria-peace-talks-216911


10 posted on 12/19/2015 4:22:58 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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And scumbags like the Assads who helped bomb our Marines, killed the Christian Prez. of Lebanon and allowed Jihadis to attack US forces in Iraq, transport missiles from Iran to those firing them at Israel are not terrorists? Eh?


11 posted on 12/19/2015 4:24:43 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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And scumbags like the Assads who helped bomb our Marines, killed the Christian Prez. of Lebanon and allowed Jihadis to attack US forces in Iraq, transport missiles from Iran to those firing them at Israel are not terrorists? Eh?


12 posted on 12/19/2015 4:25:52 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: ssfromla

You have to admit though, when Kerry walks into a room, his counterparts have already lost because they are forced to listen to him. Everything within them is telling them to give him a wedgie on their way out the door, but there they are. It’s a propaganda masterpiece of the Obama admin to trot these idiots onto the world stage. In his goal of completely diminishing America, there is no better method.


13 posted on 12/19/2015 5:00:53 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: WhiskeyX

What a total waste of time and MONEY!


14 posted on 12/19/2015 5:00:53 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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Liberals playing with sheets of paper and pretending they’re doing something.
Here’s some more examples of people pretending:
-Democrats pretending that black people aren’t people, i.e., slavery.
-Germans pretending that Jewish people aren’t people.
-Democrats pretending that pre-born people aren’t people.
-Democrats pretending that homosexuality is normal.

All of this pretending causes problems for many, many years.


15 posted on 12/19/2015 6:03:20 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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Sure Buck! We will have peace in my great great grand kid’s time.


16 posted on 12/19/2015 7:24:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is making so much money for the media they’re learning to love capitalism!! (jimrob))
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To: BeadCounter

You’re right. Let’s nation build in every Muslim nation, what could go wrong?...


17 posted on 12/19/2015 8:14:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: BeadCounter

At least it’s better than getting dragged through the streets by a mob. Assad will leave if the deal is right but the Iranians will continue to import their influence. We may see a worsening situation after he leaves.


18 posted on 12/19/2015 9:07:02 AM PST by CMB_polarization
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