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Friday, September 20, 2013

RUSSIA PULLS AWAY FROM SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS DEAL WITH KERRY

Moscow pulls away from Kerry-Lavrov deal on Syrian chemical disarmament. Assad gets to keep his chemical arsenal. 
 
Assad had already managed to keep his biological weapons, which were never part of the deal.
 
Russian leaders finally picked apart the Kerry-Lavrov understanding for Syria’s chemical disarmament - less than a week after it was unveiled in Geneva last Saturday.
 
Thursday, Sept. 19, they slapped down a string of  coordinated obstructions. One knockout blow came from President Vladimir Putin, who commented dryly that he could not be 100 percent certain that the plan for the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons would succeed. “But everything we have seen so far in recent days gives us confidence that this will happen. I hope so,” he said.
 
To dispel that hope, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu followed up with a denial of any plans to destroy the Syrian chemical stocks on Russian soil.
 
Then, in an interview to Fox News, Syrian President Bashar Assad, in sync with Moscow, asked mockingly: “It [the destruction of poison chemicals] is very detrimental to the environment. If the American administration is ready to pay this money and take the responsibility of bringing toxic materials to the United States, why don’t they do it?”
 
Since Russia and the US are the only countries with the industrial-scale capacity to destroy chemical munitions, and their import is banned under US law, Assad’s chemical arsenal is safe.
 
US Secretary of State John Kerry, seeing his understanding with Sergey Lavrov slipping away, made a desperate attempt to save it. He called a news conference at the State Department Thursday to declare that it was essential the deal be enforced with a binding resolution and that the UN Security Council act on it next week, when the UN General Assembly holds its annual meeting in New York.
 
Kerry did not indicate how the US administration would react if the deal fell through or whether the US military option would be revived.

Read more - http://debka.com/article/23295/Moscow-pulls-away-from-Kerry-Lavrov-deal-on-Syrian-chemical-disarmament-Assad-gets-to-keep-his-WMD

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