{"id":7606,"date":"2012-03-21T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:21:40","slug":"russia-china-back-un-council-statement-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7606","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China back UN council statement on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia, China back UN council statement on Syria<\/strong>
\n21 March, 2012 – Al-Akhbar<\/p>\n

Russia, China, and Western powers finally arrived at a joint position on Syria on Wednesday with the endorsement of a UN Security Council statement outlining a peace plan to resolve the country’s year-long crisis.<\/p>\n

The statement demands Syria “immediately” implement a peace plan proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan and move to end hostilities and begin a democratic transition.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a news conference in Berlin shortly before the statement was agreed to, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made clear that Moscow fully supported the amended text.<\/p>\n

“The council text reflects the reality in Syria and supports Annan’s aims,” Lavrov said after talks in Berlin with his German and Polish counterparts. “We support it fully.”<\/p>\n

“The most important thing is that there are no ultimatums…and no suggestions as to who carries more blame,” he said.<\/p>\n

In New York, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the council had “finally chosen to take a pragmatic look at Syria.”<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed the statement as a “positive step” and warned Assad he faced “increasing pressure” if he did not implement the peace plan.<\/p>\n

British UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said the statement sends a “strong and united message to the government and all other actors in Syria that they need to respond…immediately” to Annan’s peace proposals.<\/p>\n

French envoy Gerard Araud called the statement “a small step by the Security Council in the right direction.”<\/p>\n

“A resolution is still on the table and we hope we will manage to obtain a Security Council resolution,” Araud told reporters. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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