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US, Russia want new Syrian constitution
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Thursday that Washington and Moscow had agreed to aim at having a new draft constitution for Syria drawn up by August, after over four hours of talks with President Vladimir Putin  ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead.... "We agreed on a target schedule for establishing a framework for a political transition and also a draft constitution, both of which we targeted by August," Kerry said at a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Kerry also said Thursday he and Putin had agreed to push the Syrian regime and rebels to accelerate talks on a political transition to end their civil war. Kerry would not say whether Putin had agreed that Syria’s  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... should step down as part of the transitions but insisted that Russia and the United States agreed the strongman "should do the right thing" and engage in the peace talks. Kerry said earlier on Thursday a fragile partial truce in Syria had reduced levels of violence there, but that he wanted to see a further reduction as well as greater flows of humanitarian aid. "It’s fair to say three weeks ago there were very very few people who believed a cessation of hostilities was possible in Syria," Kerry told Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, at the start of talks in Moscow. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-25 |
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