Moscow Says Calls to Use Force in Syria Counterproductive
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Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Thursday that French calls to use force in Syria under a United Nations mandate were counterproductive.
Bogdanov's comments came a day after French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Syria's United Nations-backed peace plan was "seriously compromised" and held out the threat of seeking military action to end a brutal 13-month crackdown on dissent.
"It's a counterproductive approach," Russian news agencies cited Bogdanov as saying. "It seems to us the only way to avoid civil war, the most promising method, is a national dialogue" in Syria.
Syrian opposition leaders Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the UN, following the reported killing of more than 100 people in the city of Hama, though Russia blamed rebels for stoking the unrest.
"The questions of a ceasefire and the retreat of troops are, of course, important, but they must be accompanied by practices tied to the political process," Bogdanov added.
26 April 2012, 23:26
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The only thing the Russian care about is the threat of losing one of their biggest arms customer. They could care less about human lives.
27 April 2012, 00:07
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and they lost it, it is a matter of weeks then they won't be able to get their money for what they sold. bye bye russia
27 April 2012, 05:40
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Giving large shells to ASSad to smash cities is the productive thing to do??? Protecting a mass murderer is the productive thing to do? Forget it Russia.....the time for dialog is gone. The choices are Assad, his psycho mother and his killer thugs leave the government, or there will be civil war.
27 April 2012, 08:20
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As long there is Russia and China on the side of Bashar, the opposition will be destroyed.
