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Russia Says Determined to Prevent Libyan Scenario in Syria
[An Nahar] The BRICS group of emerging powers are determined not to allow a Libyan-style solution to the crisis in Syria, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday.Regime change does tend to make some people nervous... "If it's up to the BRICS, the Libyan scenario won't be repeated," Russian news agencies quoted Lavrov as saying in a joint presser with his Brazilian counterpart Antonio Patriota. Since when is what the Syrian people want up to the BRICS? "We are proposing that the U.N. Security Council firmly demands that all parties to the conflict respect human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... and begin talks," he said, referring to the BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. "We cannot incite the Syrian opposition to ignore dialogue," he said. Pencilneck seems to be ignoring dialogue rather nicely... Moscow has consistently opposed sanctions against Syria Not wanting to lose another customer... and, like China, boycotted a U.N. Security Council meeting on sanctions against Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... . On Friday, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposed an embargo on Syrian oil exports, in order to stop a key revenue source for the regime of  President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... , in a move criticized by Syria's longtime ally Russia. The EU oil embargo against Syria went into effect on Saturday a day after its adoption by the 27-nation bloc to punish the government for its brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests. Moscow has also refused to stop selling arms to Syria, Like I said, customer relations are important to the Russians... despite an appeal from U.S. Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Daniel Webster... , who last month also called on China and India to step up pressure on Assad's regime, along with Moscow. Posted by: Fred 2011-09-05 |
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