Russia Says U.S. Renounces Syria Peace 'Co-Sponsor' Role with Embassy Closure
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Russia said Wednesday the United States had renounced its "co-sponsor" role in negotiating peace in Syria by closing down the Syrian embassy in Washington.
"By making such a unilateral move, our American partners in essence are depriving themselves of the role of co-sponsor of the process of political regulation in Syria and willy-nilly playing into the hands of the hard-core Syrian opposition," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The United States on Tuesday closed down the Syrian embassy in Washington and told Damascus it will no longer be able to operate two consulates in Michigan and Texas, citing the illegitimacy of President Bashar Assad's rule.
Moscow said it viewed the move with "concern and disappointment" and that it went against an agreement drawn up by world powers in Geneva in June 2012 on a political transition that did not spell out Assad's future.
It accused Washington of prioritizing regime change over the tasks of destroying Syria's chemical weapons and helping its people.
"Resolving these without direct cooperation with the Syrian government is impossible," the statement said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the decision was taken because "the illegitimacy of the Assad regime is so overwhelming."
19 March 2014, 15:50
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Once again the USA is trying to dictate to other countries through aggression and hubris rather than negotiation. The entire world is sick and tired of this tyrannic behavior.
Once again the USA lashes out as their plans in the Ukraine, Venezuela and Syria are falling to pieces. Th Ukraine strategy of NATO membership and taking the Crimea is defeated. Venezuela and Syria have fought off this aggression for now.
So here we are again with an angry spoiled brat taking childish and dangerous decisions that will impact the innocent once again. That they can not see the stupidity and arrogance of the behavior is worrisome indeed.
19 March 2014, 18:23
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USA closes an embassy and it is trying to dictate to countries through aggression and hubris. Rather than negotiations.
Russia annexes part of a sovereign country against agreements IT signed through military force and they are peaceful loving nightingales.
Your double standards and incomprehensible and illogical rants show you for what you truly are.
Why don't you leave Australia if you are so blindly against the west? Move to Russia and deal a deathly blow to the western economies while simultaneously single handedly doubling the value of the ruble? You are a hypocrite living in the luxuries of the west under the freedoms they guarantee you (yes even to criticize them) and you bark at them with such zeal. While if you were to do the same in the countries you laud you would be stuck in black hole and tenderized.
20 March 2014, 08:10
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hahaha.. you are comparing what was done in the 1860s to something being done now? would you like me to list all the areas that russia has annexed in all of its history? besides, Hawaii for one was not part of a sovereign country, nor did America give Hawaii in agreement it signed and then took it back.
if russia wants to protect its russian speaking people, then let them move to russia...
and one other difference is that Hawaii is recognized by EVERY country as being part of the USA, while Crimea being Russian is only recognized by Russia, Syria, and, ummmm i think thats it so far.
you must have been a front line soldier in sab3a-ayar, the damage is all too obvious.
