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| Tillerson Meets Russian Leaders In Moscow As Tensions Continue Between US & Russia | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 12 2017, 02:47 PM (60 Views) | |
| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:47 PM Post #1 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Vladimir Putin hosts US Secretary of State in the Kremlin --Rex Tillerson's motorcade arrived at the Kremlin around 4 PM London time, and he has been speaking to Mr Putin for nearly an hour. The meeting follows a day of talks between Mr Tillerson and his Russian counterpart, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, as Washington and Moscow seek to defuse a simmering confrontation over the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons. Top of the agenda will be US demands that Mr Putin ditch his ally Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president who the US have accused of using chemical weapons on civilians in a horrific attack last week. Mr Putin is unlikely to bow to those demands - and will likely demand assurances that there will be no repeat of the US missile strikes on a Syrian airbase on April 7. Mr Tillerson is the first official from Donald Trump's administration to meet Mr Putin face to face. So no pressure. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:50 PM Post #2 |
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![]() --Встреча Путина, Лаврова и Тиллерсона в Кремле проходит без участия журналистов: никаких заявлений для прессы по ее итогам не планируется (ENG - The meeting of Putin, Lavrov and Tillerson in the Kremlin is held without the participation of journalists: no statements for the press on its results are not planned) (Dmitri Smirnov, Komsomolskaya Pravda - 12 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:51 PM Post #3 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Syrian process is in "grave danger" --While closed-door talks continue in the Kremlin, Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy, has called on the US and Russia to work for a real ceasefire and help end the six year conflict in the country. Speaking to the UN Security council, he said the United States and Russia, as co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group comprising about 20 countries with interests on both sides of the conflict, "must find a way to work together, to stabilize the situation ... in support of the political process." De Mistura said Russia, Iran and Turkey must also "step up and deliver now." "Let us use this moment of crisis - and it is a moment of crisis - as a watershed and an opportunity perhaps for a new level of seriousness in the search for a political solution," he said. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:52 PM Post #4 |
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--UK ambo to UN says Porton Down (where UK used to develop its own chem weapons) scientists analysed #KhanSheikhoun samples. Sarin or similar. (Rory Challands, Al Jazzera - 12 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:53 PM Post #5 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Gas used in April 4 attack "Sarin or similar" --Bashar Assad promised to give up his stocks of Sarin - a deadly nerve agent - after a similar attack near Damascus in 2013. The United States and other Western countries say he lied about giving up gas, despite promising both Washington and Moscow he would do so. Russia claims Mr Assad did indeed surrender his nerve gas stocks - meaning that it was the rebels, not the government who owned the gas used in the attack. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:57 PM Post #6 |
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![]() (Daily Telegraph) Profile of Rex Tillerson --Born: 23 March 1952 (age 65) --From:Wichita Falls, Texas --Education: Bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas --Occupation: Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil - the world’s largest publicly-traded energy company ExxonMobil --Mr Tillerson joined Exxon Company, USA, in 1975 as a production engineer and worked his way up the ranks to become Chairman and CEO in 2006. In 2017 he severed all ties with ExxonMobil, in compliance with conflict-of-interest rules as Secretary of State. Russian connection --Mr Tillerson’s near-decade-long stint in the former Soviet Union saw him enormously build the company’s presence there and form deep relationships with Russian officials --He is a personal friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Rosneft executive chairman Igor Sechin In 2013, Mr Tillerson received a Russian state honour, the Order of Friendship, for “strengthening cooperation in the energy sector” Secretary of State --President-elect Donald Trump announced Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state in December 2016, saying he would be “a forceful and clear-eyed advocate for America’s vital national interests”. Tillerson’s experience in diplomacy stems from making deals with foreign countries, but questions were immediately raised about the oil executive’s relations with Russia. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:58 PM Post #7 |
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![]() --Waiting 1.5 hours+ for Moscow press conference in which Tillerson has already decided which two outlets he'll take questions from. (Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker) |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 02:59 PM Post #8 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson meeting over --We're getting word the closed door meeting in the Kremlin is over. A joint press conference with Rex Tillerson and Sergei Lavrov is expected to start in about 30 minutes. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:00 PM Post #9 |
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![]() --Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has arrived. (Matthew Bodner, Moscow Times - 12 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:01 PM Post #10 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Heated Exchanges At The United Nations --Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador says the U.S. "provocation" by attacking a Syrian air base will only encourage those who want a military solution to the six-year Syrian conflict. Vladimir Safronkov told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the chemical attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun needs to be investigated and he asked how French experts determined who was responsible when nobody has visited the area. He also accused Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft of being far more interested in regime change in Syria than in seeking to bring peace to the country. Safronkov gave strong backing to efforts by U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura to get the Syrian government and opposition to discuss key political issues in Geneva. He stressed that a political settlement "is the only way to return Syria to peace and reduce tensions in the Middle East." |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:04 PM Post #11 |
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(Daily Telegraph) US to Russia: choose between Assad or civilization --Earlier Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, told Russia to side with Assad or the civilized world, Ruth Sherlock reports: "To my colleagues from Russia," Mrs Haley said. "You are isolating yourself from the international community every time one of Assad's planes drops barrel bombs on civilians." She said that it has "long passed time for Russia to stop covering for Assad and for Russia to push for peace and not be part of the problem". Russia is expected to veto a resolution this afternoon demanding that the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation of the suspected chemical attack last week. Mrs Haley said that for Russia "getting serious about peace" starts by with commitment to push Assad to get chemical weapons out of Syria. She also said Moscow should commit to the Geneva peace talks. Mrs Haley also had a tough message for the UN security council, warning that it's relevance is measured by action. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:05 PM Post #12 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Lavrov and Tillerson arrive for press conference --Mr Lavrov says in opening comments that the meeting with Vladimir Putin for more than two hours. The negotiations were "substantial and very frank." |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:05 PM Post #13 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Lavrov: "no compromise with terrorism" --First the agreements: We understand that if Moscow and Washington cooperate it is to the benefit of the whole world, not just our countries. We have reaffirmed that there will be no compromise with terrorism. The Russian foreign minister adds that both sides have "stated their positions" regarding the chemical weapons attack near Idlib on April 4 and the subsequent US missile strike on a Syrian airbase on April 7. |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:06 PM Post #14 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Russia "sees readiness of US to support investigation into gas attack." --Mr Lavrov says the US has backed Russia demands for a comprehensive UN investigation into the April 4 attack, but defends Russian decision to veto any resolution at the UN Security Council that it considers "counter productive." |
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| Webster | Apr 12 2017, 03:07 PM Post #15 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Vladmir Putin 'reinstates deconfliction referendum in Syria' --Sergey Lavrov says Vladimir Putin said he was ready to reinstate a memorandum with the US designed to prevent accidents in the skies over Syria. The Russian defence ministry suspended the agreement in protest at last week's US missile strike. |
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