Monday, October 20, 2014

Kerry says US aid to Syrian Kurds was response to crisis

The United States told Turkey that a US military air-drop of arms to Syrian Kurds battling Islamic State near the Syrian town of Kobani was a response to a crisis situation and did not represent a change in US policy, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday.

"We talked with Turkish authorities - I did, the president did, to make it very very clear that this is not a shift in policy by the United States. It is crisis moment, an emergency," Kerry told reporters on a visit to Indonesia, adding that it was a "momentary effort."


The Turkish government, which views Syrian Kurds with deep suspicion because of their ties to the PKK - a group that waged a decades-long militant campaign for Kurdish rights in Turkey - has turned down requests for it to open a land corridor so Kobani could be resupplied from other Kurdish areas of northern Syria. 

[jpost.com]
20/10/14
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  1. Kerry diz que não ajudar os curdos seria "irresponsável"...

    "Seria irresponsável da nossa parte, e ao mesmo tempo moralmente muito difícil, virar as costas a uma comunidade que combate o Estado Islâmico do Iraque e do Levante - EIIL (outra designação do EI)", disse Kerry, durante uma visita a Jacarta, na Indonésia.

    Kerry falava após os primeiros carregamentos de armas lançados pelos Estados Unidos da América naquela zona.

    As armas foram lançadas ao amanhecer, juntamente com munições e material médico, por três aviões de carga C-130.

    "É um momento de crise, uma emergência", sublinhou Kerry, durante um encontro com o seu homólogo filipino, Albert del Rosario, insistindo que tal manobra "não é uma mudança de política" por parte dos Estados Unidos.................http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Mundo/Interior.aspx?content_id=4190965&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JN-ULTIMAS+%28JN+-+Ultimas%29&page=-1
    20/10/14

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