Geneva communique of 2012 (click here)
...3.Action Group members are committed to the sovereignty, independence, national unity and territorial integrity of Syria.They are determined to work urgently and intensively to bring about an end to the violence and human rights abuses and thelaunch of a Syrian led political process leading to a transition that meets the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people and enables them in dependently and democratically to determine their own future....
The Russians are insisting the Geneva Communique of 2012 be the basis of the proceedings. There was global support for the Communique of 2012; I can't imagine anyone would be disregarding it's importance.
China praised the Communique for being balanced.
Updated: 2012-07-02 09:28
(Xinhua)
China praised the Communique for being balanced.
Updated: 2012-07-02 09:28
(Xinhua)
DAMASCUS - A Syrian parliamentarian (click here) said the new plan put forward by
the Geneva action group meeting reinforced the six-point peace plan
brokered by international special envoy Kofi Annan, adding that the
meeting's final communique was balanced.
The action group meeting on Syria reinforced Annan's six-point peace
plan, Omar Ossi, a parliamentarian representing the Syrian Kurds, told
Xinhua in an interview on Saturday.
An action group comprising of world powers met Saturday in Geneva and agreed upon a roadmap that hammered out a process for a Syrian-led transition to end the 16-month-long conflict but didn't stipulate the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A joint communique issued after the meeting said that the global community wished to see "an end to the violence and human rights abuses" and that the Syrian people enjoyed rights to " independently and democratically determine their own future."
The meeting specified the steps and measures to secure full implementation of Annan's peace plan for Syria....
The Guardian is reporting the plans to end chemical weapons in Syria is on track.
Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said the Syrian government had provided complete co-operation with the 27 weapons inspectors in the country.
Luhan said the inspectors had visited 18 of the 23 chemical weapons sites declared by Damascus, and that a complete, official, inventory of all Syria's chemical weapons, munitions, and production facilities, was expected to be delivered to the OPCW headquarters in the Hague in the next 24 hours.
Furthermore, he said Syria was expected to meet next Friday's deadline laid down by the OPCW executive council for the destruction of all equipment
involved in the production and mixing of chemical weapons as well machinery used for filling munitions with mustard gas, sarin or other poison agents....
The United Nations is receiving plenty of help with the weapons destruction from the USA and Russia. There haven't been anymore releases of these weapons noted since the diplomatic efforts has gone forward.
Diplomatic missions often run into problems in reaching consensus. Russia is noting the Friends of Syria are changing direction.
Published time: October 24, 2013 02:44
Moscow has blamed the ‘Friends of Syria’ group (click here) for attempting to revise the key elements of the Geneva communique of 2012 and influence the outcome of the Geneva 2 conference.
"We have to state that contrary to previously held understandings on how to resolve the crisis in Syria the final document issued after the meeting attempts to revise the key elements of the 30 June 2012 Geneva communique," Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman said in a statement.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also asserted: “It is this document that has been recognized as the only platform to achieve a political settlement in Syria and has recently been approved by UN Security Council Resolution 2118.”
The spokesman states that prior to London’s Wednesday meeting of 11 foreign ministers of the ‘Friends of Syria’ group, Russia was told that “the discussions there will be held exclusively on the basis of the Geneva communique.
Moscow believes that the discussions violated the diplomatic effort and is seen as “an attempt to revise the communique according to the political needs [of the Syrian opposition]," to create a “regime change” in Damascus. Lukashevich also said that the London communique contained a "poorly hidden threat" of armed intervention in Syria....
It wouldn't be that the Friends of Syria are picking up clues from Saxby Chambliss in the USA, could it?
Posted: 2:47 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013
By Jim Galloway
...The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee remains convinced that Obama took the wrong path when he decided against a one-time air-strike against Syria – which was opposed by many Democrats as well as Republicans, in D.C. and here. Said Chambliss:
“There was no doubt in anybody’s mind who had been involved in the discussions, and inside the Situation Room, and inside the classified briefings, that we were going to take a strike. There were options out there.
“I thought he should have made the decision early on. That was his first mistake. Previous commanders-in-chief did it quickly. Get it over with, move on, and we’re talking about something else.
“Here, when he delayed his decision, in effect, and then changed his mind, it was pretty clear that the Russians and everybody in the Middle East part of the world saw a weakness. And that weakness was really exposed when he wound up going to the negotiating table with the Russians.
“So, yeah, I think this outcome is much worse than if we had gone in and fired a few missiles. Nobody wants to see collateral damage. But the damage we would have caused would have been minimal – and it would have been over with. And [Assad] would have capitulated if we had done it right. So, yeah, I think the result is much worse than it would have been.”
Senator Chambliss has one year left in his federal office. It is unfortunate he wants to take leave of propriety and do little more than war mongering in that final year.
An action group comprising of world powers met Saturday in Geneva and agreed upon a roadmap that hammered out a process for a Syrian-led transition to end the 16-month-long conflict but didn't stipulate the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A joint communique issued after the meeting said that the global community wished to see "an end to the violence and human rights abuses" and that the Syrian people enjoyed rights to " independently and democratically determine their own future."
The meeting specified the steps and measures to secure full implementation of Annan's peace plan for Syria....
The Guardian is reporting the plans to end chemical weapons in Syria is on track.
Luhan said the inspectors had visited 18 of the 23 chemical weapons sites declared by Damascus, and that a complete, official, inventory of all Syria's chemical weapons, munitions, and production facilities, was expected to be delivered to the OPCW headquarters in the Hague in the next 24 hours.
Furthermore, he said Syria was expected to meet next Friday's deadline laid down by the OPCW executive council for the destruction of all equipment
involved in the production and mixing of chemical weapons as well machinery used for filling munitions with mustard gas, sarin or other poison agents....
The United Nations is receiving plenty of help with the weapons destruction from the USA and Russia. There haven't been anymore releases of these weapons noted since the diplomatic efforts has gone forward.
Diplomatic missions often run into problems in reaching consensus. Russia is noting the Friends of Syria are changing direction.
Published time: October 24, 2013 02:44
Moscow has blamed the ‘Friends of Syria’ group (click here) for attempting to revise the key elements of the Geneva communique of 2012 and influence the outcome of the Geneva 2 conference.
"We have to state that contrary to previously held understandings on how to resolve the crisis in Syria the final document issued after the meeting attempts to revise the key elements of the 30 June 2012 Geneva communique," Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman said in a statement.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also asserted: “It is this document that has been recognized as the only platform to achieve a political settlement in Syria and has recently been approved by UN Security Council Resolution 2118.”
The spokesman states that prior to London’s Wednesday meeting of 11 foreign ministers of the ‘Friends of Syria’ group, Russia was told that “the discussions there will be held exclusively on the basis of the Geneva communique.
Moscow believes that the discussions violated the diplomatic effort and is seen as “an attempt to revise the communique according to the political needs [of the Syrian opposition]," to create a “regime change” in Damascus. Lukashevich also said that the London communique contained a "poorly hidden threat" of armed intervention in Syria....
It wouldn't be that the Friends of Syria are picking up clues from Saxby Chambliss in the USA, could it?
Posted: 2:47 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013
By Jim Galloway
...The ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee remains convinced that Obama took the wrong path when he decided against a one-time air-strike against Syria – which was opposed by many Democrats as well as Republicans, in D.C. and here. Said Chambliss:
“There was no doubt in anybody’s mind who had been involved in the discussions, and inside the Situation Room, and inside the classified briefings, that we were going to take a strike. There were options out there.
“I thought he should have made the decision early on. That was his first mistake. Previous commanders-in-chief did it quickly. Get it over with, move on, and we’re talking about something else.
“Here, when he delayed his decision, in effect, and then changed his mind, it was pretty clear that the Russians and everybody in the Middle East part of the world saw a weakness. And that weakness was really exposed when he wound up going to the negotiating table with the Russians.
“So, yeah, I think this outcome is much worse than if we had gone in and fired a few missiles. Nobody wants to see collateral damage. But the damage we would have caused would have been minimal – and it would have been over with. And [Assad] would have capitulated if we had done it right. So, yeah, I think the result is much worse than it would have been.”
Senator Chambliss has one year left in his federal office. It is unfortunate he wants to take leave of propriety and do little more than war mongering in that final year.
