{"id":11773,"date":"2012-08-14T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11773"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:14:16","slug":"russia-bows-to-us-strength-on-security-council-denies-move-to-put-bahrain-on-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11773","title":{"rendered":"Russia bows to US strength on Security Council – denies move to put Bahrain on agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia denies move to put Bahrain in UN focus<\/strong>
\nBy Habib Toumi – 13 August, 2012 – Gulf News<\/p>\n

Manama: Russia\u2019s ambassador to Bahrain has denied a report that his country had suggested putting Bahrain\u2019s political situation on the agenda of the Security Council.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe report is groundless and lacks credibility,\u201d Victor Smirnov told Bahraini officials as well as MPs Ahmad Al Saati, the head of the Bahrain Parliamentary Bloc, and Sawsan Al Taqawi, the head of the Foreign, Defence and National Security Commission, in separate meetings.<\/p>\n

The media report surfaced over the weekend and the suggestion to discuss the situation in Bahrain was attributed to the Russian permanent representative at the United Nations.<\/p>\n

According to the report that cited \u2018diplomatic sources\u2019 it did not name, the US, France and the UK were shocked by the Russian suggestion to debate developments in Bahrain. It did not mention the reaction of China, the fifth member of the Security Council, to the alleged suggestion.<\/p>\n

However, Smirnov told the two Bahraini lawmakers that Moscow did not issue any new formal statement on Bahrain, saying that Russia\u2019s positions are \u201cclear\u201d and \u201cposted on the foreign ministry website\u201d.<\/p>\n

Official statements on Russia\u2019s policy are made by the president, the foreign minister or his deputy only and other statements, even if they are issued by officials, do not reflect Russia\u2019s position, the diplomat was quoted as telling the Bahraini MPs. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Russia denies move to put Bahrain in UN focus By Habib Toumi – 13 August, 2012 – Gulf News Manama: Russia\u2019s ambassador to Bahrain has denied a report that his country had suggested putting Bahrain\u2019s political situation on the agenda of the Security Council. \u201cThe report is groundless and lacks credibility,\u201d Victor Smirnov told Bahraini more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3363],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11775,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions\/11775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}