He stressed that Russian-US partnership on Syria had played a crucial role in launching a political settlement on the basis of the Geneva Communique, which was signed on June 30, 2012.
Earlier, US President Barack Obama, at a joint press conference after talks with French President Francois Hollande, held the Syrian government responsible for the worsening humanitarian crisis and for the disruption of the agreed schedule for Syria’s chemical weapons disarmament.
"The truce in Homs and Yarmouk has been repeatedly disturbed due to provocations by militants, who opened fire on humanitarian convoys, which was confirmed by UN and OPCW representatives. The desire to pass the buck is behind this yet another attempt to misinform the international public and create the necessary propaganda background for pushing an unbalanced and counterproductive "humanitarian" resolution through the UN Security Council," Lukashevich said............................ http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_02_12/US-tendentiously-distorts-Russia-s-position-on-Syria-Moscow-3870/
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US trying to force in counterproductive resolution against Syria – Russian FM...
ReplyDeleteUS peremptory claims about Syria being to blame for the aggravation of the humanitarian crisis and its assessment of Russia’s activities is clearly an attempt to create conditions for forcing in a counterproductive resolution, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Wednesday.
‘This is another attempt to misinform the international community and create a background for forcing in an unbalanced and counterproductive resolution through the UN Security Council,’ Lukashevich said answering the media questions in connection with US President Obama’s statements on Syrian issues made at a joint press-conference with French President Francois Hollande.
Earlier the US President insisted on the Syrian government’s responsibility for the aggravation of the humanitarian crisis in that country and for the failure of the approved schedule of the elimination of chemical weapons. Obama also said that Russia should see to it that Syria complies with the commitment to place chemical weapons under international control...........http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_02_12/US-trying-to-force-in-counterproductive-resolution-against-Syria-Russian-FM-6685/
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SYRIA: Security Council Resolution / Ongoing Negotiations.-Marie Harf, Deputy Spokesperson, Daily Press Briefing....
ReplyDeleteQUESTION: Hi. Thanks for doing this. And I saw a report that Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Russia does have its own draft Security Council resolution on Syria humanitarian aid access that, per their usual position, doesn’t have sanctions or whatever for noncompliance. But the fact that they have their own draft suggests that they might be willing to support some type of measure. What kind of willingness do you see on the U.S. side to try to get a consensus position, even if it would mean taking off some of the penalties that are in the Western-backed drafts currently being circulated?
MS. HARF: Yeah, no, it’s a good question, and thank you for it. The United States continues to support the original resolution submitted to the full 15 members of the Security Council. So that’s the resolution draft that Australia, Jordan, and Luxembourg submitted to the full 15 members I think it was yesterday, because our position remains the same. The Security Council needs to act urgently to address the humanitarian situation. At this point, I’m sort of not going to get into a line-by-line analysis of the proposed Russian draft or the difference between the two because we’re in the middle of negotiations. We welcome constructive engagement from the Russians and the Chinese and all Security Council members on the resolution currently before the 15 members of the council. But again, the negotiations are ongoing right now about Security Council draft language, and we’ll keep talking to folks to see if we can get some language we can all agree to, because the situation is so serious.
QUESTION: Thanks.......
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2014/02/221643.htm#SYRIA
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