Breaking: Rudolf Pulls Back from Reindeer Games

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Conflict News ‏@Conflicts 2 hod.
Moscow slams US, UK for 'unacceptable' UN statements on Syria - AFP

UK, French and US Ambassadors walk out of UN SC emergency meeting as Syrian Amb speaks

British ambassador walks out on UN Security Council meeting, accusing Russia of war crimes
... The walkout on Sunday by Mr Rycroft, US envoy Samantha Power, and France's Francois Delattre ......

Crocodile Tears & Western Hypocrisy- MUST WATCH: 1:55
Syrian rep. Bashar Ja’afari’s epic snark & accusations at Hegemons during UNSC

Bashar Ja’afari: Ahrar Al-Sham Had Plans to Launch White Phosphorous Chemical Attack on civilians, Blame it on Syria Govt

US not willing to attack Nusra: Russian FM

(TASS) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Monday
that he cannot afford to have absolute trust towards the United States
on the issue of its readiness to deal strikes against the terrorist organization Jabhat Al-Nusra.

"US Secretary of State John Kerry keeps saying that Jabhat Al-Nusra
poses the same terrorist threat as the Islamic State (both outlawed in Russia)," Lavrov said.

"But Al-Nusra remains untouchable.
This is a paradox.
I don’t know whom I can trust.
That I cannot trust them (the United States) one hundred percent is for certain."

"It is a vicious circle.
Each time Russia or Syrian planes hit Nusra positions,
they make a fuss, claiming that we’ve hit the patriotic opposition again
thereby pushing it into Nusra’s embrace," Lavrov said.

At the same time he recalled that US Secretary of State John Kerry stated in public
that those who do not regard themselves as terrorists
should leave the Jabhat al-Nusra-controlled areas.

"The British have a saying: to move the goalposts.
Some of our partners these days are trying to do precisely this," he said.
"Regrettably, the United States has contracted this bad habit
to stop being an impartial co-chair of the ISSG. It brings the grist to one mill."

"Unfortunately, all the recent actions by the US show
that they [now] want even more conditions
in order to implement our agreements than what is written on paper," the minister said.

"Each side can be sure of what obligations it has [already] accepted.
I suppose, everyone already knows
that the requirement to separate the opposition from terrorists comes first."

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem

TURKISH TREACHERY

AlMoualem: Terrorists were not dropped on north #Syria by parachutes, they came through the Turkish borders

DEIR EZZOR SLAUGHTER

AlMoualem: 2 days before the #US airstrikes, there were US drones flying over #SAA locations in #DeirEzZor

Alamoualem: For the past two years, our forces were deployed in AlTharda mountain. This confirms that the US airstrikes were intentional

AlMoualem: The #US raids were not rapid raids, they lasted for 50 minutes

AlMoualem: After the #US airstrikes were over, #ISIS carried out an offensive to capture #SAA location that is overseeing #DeirEzZor airbase

AlMoualem: #US airstrikes on the locations of #SAA in AlThatda mountain were carried out in coordination with #ISIS

AlMoualem: The #US airstrikes on #DeirEzZor revealed with no doubt the American intentions


SYRIA REBUKES UN De MISTURA & CANCELS BAN KI MOON MEETING

AlMoualem: This is a dialogue between Syrians & De Mistura is not allowed to set any conditions

AlMoualem: De Mistura is not a side, he is UN mediator and he should stick to his role

SYRIA CANCELS

AlMoualem: I have informed Ban Ki Moon on the cancellation of a meeting that he has set with me since last Saturday

Newsweek Middle East ‏@NewsweekME 2 hod.
#BREAKING: Kremlin says sees no prospects of holding summit on Syria at this stage

Russia sees no point in convening new UN Security Council meeting on Syria

More than patient... all of them.

 

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HEGEMON SANCTIONS (remember Clinton's 'No Fly' & 1999 Iraq sanctions that exterminated 500,000 Iraqi children? I do. )

►THEINTERCEPT: U.S. and EU Sanctions Are Punishing Ordinary Syrians and Crippling Aid Work, U.N. Report Reveals

Internal United Nations assessments obtained by The Intercept
reveal that U.S. and European sanctions are punishing ordinary Syrians and crippling aid work (How's that for irony?)
during the largest humanitarian emergency since World War II.

FOOD MEDICINE WATER
.....Doubling in fuel prices in 18 months and a 40 percent drop in wheat production since 2010,
causing the price of wheat flour to soar by 300 percent and rice by 650 percent.
The email went on to cite sanctions as a “principal factor”
in the erosion of Syria’s health care system.
Medicine-producing factories that haven’t been completely destroyed by the fighting US AIRSTRIKES
have been forced to close because of sanctions-related restrictions on raw materials and foreign currency

NO PARTS NO REPAIRS
.....there are cars, buses, water systems, and power stations that are in serious need of repair all across the country, but it takes months to procure spare parts and there’s no time to wait. So aid groups opt for cheap Chinese options or big suppliers that have the proper licensing, but the big suppliers can charge as much as they want. If the price is unaffordable, systems break down and more and more people die from dirty water, preventable diseases, and a reduced quality of life.

SINCE 1979
Syria was first subjected to sanctions in 1979, after the U.S. designated
the Syrian government as a state sponsor of terrorism.
More sanctions were added in subsequent years,
though none more extreme than the restrictions imposed in 2011

IRAQI REPEAT
Current State Department officials use almost identical recycled talking points
that justified sanctions against Iraq in 1990s.
The U.S. continued to rationalize the Iraq sanctions
even after a report was released by UNICEF in 1999
that showed a doubling in mortality rates for children under the age of 5
after sanctions were imposed in the wake of the Gulf War,
and the death of 500,000 children.

“The opposition likes sanctions,” says Landis.
“They were the people who advocated them in the beginning
because they want to put any pressure they can on the regime.
But it’s very clear that the regime is not going to fall,
that the sanctions are not working.
They’re only immiserating a population that’s already suffered terrible declines in their per capita GDP,” he added.

The sanctions are not achieving their objectives.
Five years of devastating civil war and strict economic sanctions
have plunged over 80 percent of Syrians into poverty, up from 28 percent in 2010.

Despite the failure of sanctions,
opposition advocates are agitating for even harsher measures
that would extend sanctions to anyone who does business with the Syrian government.