{"id":18913,"date":"2013-11-05T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18913"},"modified":"2013-11-05T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:30:52","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-kerrys-statements-threaten-syria-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18913","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Kerry&#8217;s statements threaten Syria peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Syria says Kerry statements threaten peace talks<\/strong><br \/>\n3 November, 2013 &#8211; Agence France Presse<\/p>\n<p>DAMASCUS: The Syrian foreign ministry Sunday denounced statements by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Syria saying they could cause proposed peace talks on the 31-month conflict to fail.<\/p>\n<p>A statement said that repeated comments by Kerry &#8220;threaten to cause the failure of the Geneva conference, are a flagrant violation of Syrian affairs and an aggression against the Syrian people&#8217;s right to decide their future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry, who is pressing a peace conference in Geneva, said in Cairo on Sunday that Washington and its allies may differ over &#8220;tactics&#8221; on the Syrian conflict but they shared the goal of a handover of power.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2013\/Nov-03\/236695-syria-says-kerry-statements-threaten-peace-talks.ashx#axzz2jgleWyZU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D18913&amp;text=US+Secretary+of+State+Kerry%27s+statements+threaten+Syria+peace+talks&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria says Kerry statements threaten peace talks 3 November, 2013 &#8211; Agence France Presse DAMASCUS: The Syrian foreign ministry Sunday denounced statements by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Syria saying they could cause proposed peace talks on the 31-month conflict to fail. A statement said that repeated comments by Kerry &#8220;threaten to cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18913#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">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":[4164,2000],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913"}],"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=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}