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Trying to Ruin Syria Ceasefire Deal: Moscow
25 February, 2016
Russia
says the United States seeks to wreck a recently brokered ceasefire
agreement in Syria, underlining, however, that the truce process is
currently going on.
Russian
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing in
Moscow on Thursday that “some US officials” had tried to
“sabotage” the truce deal “by interpreting it from such
cardinally different points.”
“By
and large, a number of [US] officials in fact attempted to call into
question the agreements reached, which were approved by the two
presidents” of the US and Russia, Zakharova dded.
On
Monday, Washington and Moscow said the ceasefire has been planned to
take effect in Syria on February 27. The following day, however, US
Secretary of State John Kerry said that in case a political
transition fails to unfold in Syria, Washington has a slew of “Plan
B” options.
“Despite
the reports which started coming from Washington, we are in contact
with the American representatives, the process is underway, and is
quite active. We are working on the implementation of the main
provisions of the agreement,” the Russian diplomat said.
Elsewhere
in her remarks, Zakharova stressed that Syrian Kurdish forces must
take part in the ceasefire deal in the conflict-ridden country.
“We
believe that Kurdish representatives should participate in this group
[group of the Syrian opposition] and this necessity is proved
everyday on the ground in Syria,” she stated.
The
comments come against a backdrop of Turkey’s insistence on the
exclusion of Syrian Kurdish forces from the ceasefire plan in the
crisis-hit state.
Syria
Ceasefire Deal: A Cynical Ploy by Washington’s ‘Coalition’ to
Buy Time for Terrorists
21st
Century Wire says…
This
latest diplomatic development certainly appears positive on its
surface, this week’s declared ‘Syrian Ceasefire’ – a
three-way agreement between Washington, Russia and the Syrian
government (and begrudgingly by the West’s other regional
‘stakeholders’) looks increasingly like it may just be the latest
attempt to buy time – so that Washington, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
can re-arm and
replenish various militant fighting groups currently laying waste to
Syria.
Since
the entrance of the Russian Air Force into the Syrian conflict
theatre last
October, the Washington-led Axis has gradually lost proxy-control
of a number of key terrorist strongholds in Northern Syria, namely in
Aleppo, and thus are unable to dictate crucial ‘facts on the
ground’ required to dictate the international media and political
narratives. Unable to craft and package these narratives, the West
and its dubious ‘coalition’ are completely unable to sell an
escalation of military violence in Syria.
The
fact that the Washington Axis has already threatened to move to
a ‘Plan
B‘
– even before the agreement has been implemented, indicates that
this diplomatic effort may in fact be ‘dead
on arrival’. Before the ink was even dry on the agreement,
sources inside the CIA and the Pentagonwent
public with a preemptive statement claiming that, ‘Russia
cannot be trusted to uphold the ceasefire’. The scene is now set.
Watch
as 21WIRE founder and editor Patrick
Henningsen speaks
to Sean Thomas from RT International about why the ceasefire deal may
not survive the spring…
‘No Plan B for Syrian settlement’ – Russian Foreign Ministry
RT,
25
February, 2016
Moscow
is not discussing alternative plans for a political settlement in
Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has said. The
Russian-American peace initiative is going to be formalized through a
UN Security Council resolution.
“We’re
perplexed by our Western partners, the US included, mentioning the
existence of some kind of ‘Plan B,’ Nothing is known on that one,
we are considering no alternative plans,” Bognanov told the ‘Middle
East: From violence to security’ conference in Moscow.
On
February 22, Russian and American presidents simultaneously announced
that an agreement on peaceful plan for Syria had been reached, coming
into force on February 27, at midnight Damascus time.
Terrorist
organizations such as Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front are not
included in the ceasefire and will continue to be attacked until
their complete annihilation, the Russian president said in a
statement dedicated to the Syrian true.
RT
Commenting
on the ambiguous so-called “Plan B” mentioned by US Secretary of
State John Kerry, President Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov
said that Russia’s priority remains “carrying out the plan, the
initiative that has been voiced by the two presidents [Vladimir Putin
and Barack Obama].”
Damascus
has no idea about an American “Plan B” either, said Bouthaina
Shaaban, a political and media adviser to the President Assad.
“I
don’t know whether these [Plan B] statements were made to apply
pressure [on Damascus], anyway, it should not be put on the Syrian
government, which has agreed on the Russian-American initiative,”
Shaaban told RT.
#ISIS easy to defeat if #Turkey and #SaudiArabia did not support it – Assad’s adviser to RT http://on.rt.com/75cx
The
roadmap for bringing end to violence in Syria is going to be put on
paper at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Mikhail Bogdanov
also said.
Such
a document, possibly formalized as a UNSC resolution, is likely to be
ready “within days,” a high-ranking Russian diplomat said.
Moscow
is concerned with the declared intentions to create a buffer zone on
the Turkish-Syrian border and attempts to pull together a military
bloc for a ground invasion into Syria. The aims and international
legitimacy of such plans raise “grave concern,” the diplomat
said.
The
Deputy FM also referred to the idea promoted by President Vladimir
Putin about forming a “broad antiterrorist front” with the
central role of the UNSC and participation of Syrian and Iraqi
armies, Kurdish self-defense forces, armed patriotic Syrian
opposition and involvement of the regional and global players.
“The
developments [in Syria] show that the necessity for a broad front is
only growing,” Bogdanov said.
All
armed groups that want to join the ceasefire agreement are due to
lodge a request by noon, February 26. Mikhail Bogdanov acknowledged
that such requests from the Syrian oppositions indeed have been
filed.
Moscow
does work with Damascus to ensure introduction of the armistice and
expects Washington to do the same with the US allies and opposition
groups Washington has influence on, Bogdanov stressed.
The
diplomat also hopes that Russian and American militaries will define
collectively the areas, where armed groups that comply with the
ceasefire agreement are operating, to add them to a no-strike list.
Mixed Messages: Kerry, top US generals have different opinions on Russia
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/02/25/syria-in-the-crosshairs-the-syrian-people-are-against-any-plans-to-partition-syria/
Syria in the Crosshairs: “The Syrian People are Against any Plans to Partition Syria!”
25 February, 2016
“The Syrian people have fought for five years against any partition plans for Syria. The Syrian people do not want any partition in Syria and I am sure they will succeed to keep the territorial integrity and unity of Syria.”
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, outspoken media advisor to Syrian President Bashar al Assad, tears into John Kerry’s Plan B statement, to partition Syria. In an interview with RT, Dr Shaaban categorically rejects any possibility of the Syrian people accepting any partitioning plans being proposed by Kerry or of course, Israel.
“It may be too late to keep it as a whole Syria if we wait much longer,” Kerry told the US Senate foreign relations committee on February 23d.
Of course, we know this is not plan B. It has been plan A from day one, not only in Syria but across the region.
Prior to the Saudi-led coalition war of aggression against Yemen, the Saudis had persuaded their marionette , former President Mansour Hadi to accept their partitioning plan for Yemen. Yemen would be divided into 6 states along sectarian and tribal lines that would ensure inter state conflict for years to come and successfully isolate the Ansar’Allah thorn in their side in a landlocked and resource deprived state in the centre of the country, Azal.
Ansar’Allah and the majority of the Yemeni people rejected this plan in favour of a return to the two state confederacy which would have given the South its much sought after autonomy.
“The Ansarullah movement and the Southern Separatist movement were both in favour of a confederal state system where Yemen would be divided into north and south existing within a federal state. Most of us were ok with that.
Jamal Benomar, the former UN peace envoy to Yemen, stated very openly that the warring factions were actually reaching an agreement before the first bomb hit.
“When
this campaign started, one thing that was significant but went
unnoticed is that the Yemenis were close to a deal that would
institute power-sharing with all sides, including the Houthis,”
said Mr. Benomar, a Moroccan diplomat. Thus it becomes obvious
that our aspirations are being sacrificed at the altar of Imperialist
greed and ambition.” ~ Yemen
A Voice in the Wilderness
It is the determination of the Yemeni people to reject an externally imposed sectarianism in place of the secularism that has been the mainstay of their society for centuries, that has provoked the vicious and brutal Saudi punishment, rained down upon them for almost a full year, with the blatant complicity of NATO, the US and the UN.
Lets go back to October 2015. “The Panel on “The Shared 21st Century International Mission”featuring CIA Director John Brennan, former UK MI6 Chief John Sawers, Director of the French Directorate for External Security Bernard Bajolet, and former Israeli National Security Advisor Yaacov Amidror. Moderated by David Ignatius, Columnist at the Washington Post. Held as part of the 2nd Annual Ethos and Profession of Intelligence Conference, co-hosted by the Central Intelligence Agency and the George Washington University. Held on October 27, 2015.”
“When I look at Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, it’s hard for me to envision a central government in those countries that’s going to be able to exert control or authority over the territory that was carved out post World War II.” ~ John Brennan CIA Director
“The Middle East we have known is over, I doubt it will come back. We see that Syria is already divided on the ground, that the regime is controlling only a small part of the country, only one-third of the country which was established after WWII. The north is controlled by the Kurds. We have the same thing in Iraq, I doubt really that one can come back to the previous situation.” ~ Bernard Bajolet, head of France’s DGSE external intelligence agency.
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban is not responding to a disingenuous comment from John Kerry but to an agenda that has been in the pipeline since the formulation of the Oded Yinon Plan by Israel.
“[The Yinon plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.
The Atlantic, in 2008, and the U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, which the Biden Plan also calls for, the Yinon Plan calls for a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from Egypt and then spilling over into Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.” ~ Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban is responding to the threats against Syria and the region, with familiar passion and strength of character that has come to symbolize the resolve of the Syrian people in the face of a multi layered war of aggression being waged against it by over 80 hostile nations and their proxy armies of mercenaries and terrorists.
25 February, 2016
“The Syrian people have fought for five years against any partition plans for Syria. The Syrian people do not want any partition in Syria and I am sure they will succeed to keep the territorial integrity and unity of Syria.”
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, outspoken media advisor to Syrian President Bashar al Assad, tears into John Kerry’s Plan B statement, to partition Syria. In an interview with RT, Dr Shaaban categorically rejects any possibility of the Syrian people accepting any partitioning plans being proposed by Kerry or of course, Israel.
“It may be too late to keep it as a whole Syria if we wait much longer,” Kerry told the US Senate foreign relations committee on February 23d.
Of course, we know this is not plan B. It has been plan A from day one, not only in Syria but across the region.
Prior to the Saudi-led coalition war of aggression against Yemen, the Saudis had persuaded their marionette , former President Mansour Hadi to accept their partitioning plan for Yemen. Yemen would be divided into 6 states along sectarian and tribal lines that would ensure inter state conflict for years to come and successfully isolate the Ansar’Allah thorn in their side in a landlocked and resource deprived state in the centre of the country, Azal.
Ansar’Allah and the majority of the Yemeni people rejected this plan in favour of a return to the two state confederacy which would have given the South its much sought after autonomy.
“The Ansarullah movement and the Southern Separatist movement were both in favour of a confederal state system where Yemen would be divided into north and south existing within a federal state. Most of us were ok with that.
Jamal Benomar, the former UN peace envoy to Yemen, stated very openly that the warring factions were actually reaching an agreement before the first bomb hit.
“When
this campaign started, one thing that was significant but went
unnoticed is that the Yemenis were close to a deal that would
institute power-sharing with all sides, including the Houthis,”
said Mr. Benomar, a Moroccan diplomat. Thus it becomes obvious
that our aspirations are being sacrificed at the altar of Imperialist
greed and ambition.” ~ Yemen
A Voice in the Wilderness
It is the determination of the Yemeni people to reject an externally imposed sectarianism in place of the secularism that has been the mainstay of their society for centuries, that has provoked the vicious and brutal Saudi punishment, rained down upon them for almost a full year, with the blatant complicity of NATO, the US and the UN.
Lets go back to October 2015. “The Panel on “The Shared 21st Century International Mission”featuring CIA Director John Brennan, former UK MI6 Chief John Sawers, Director of the French Directorate for External Security Bernard Bajolet, and former Israeli National Security Advisor Yaacov Amidror. Moderated by David Ignatius, Columnist at the Washington Post. Held as part of the 2nd Annual Ethos and Profession of Intelligence Conference, co-hosted by the Central Intelligence Agency and the George Washington University. Held on October 27, 2015.”
“When I look at Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, it’s hard for me to envision a central government in those countries that’s going to be able to exert control or authority over the territory that was carved out post World War II.” ~ John Brennan CIA Director
“The Middle East we have known is over, I doubt it will come back. We see that Syria is already divided on the ground, that the regime is controlling only a small part of the country, only one-third of the country which was established after WWII. The north is controlled by the Kurds. We have the same thing in Iraq, I doubt really that one can come back to the previous situation.” ~ Bernard Bajolet, head of France’s DGSE external intelligence agency.
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban is not responding to a disingenuous comment from John Kerry but to an agenda that has been in the pipeline since the formulation of the Oded Yinon Plan by Israel.
“[The Yinon plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.
The Atlantic, in 2008, and the U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, which the Biden Plan also calls for, the Yinon Plan calls for a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from Egypt and then spilling over into Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.” ~ Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban is responding to the threats against Syria and the region, with familiar passion and strength of character that has come to symbolize the resolve of the Syrian people in the face of a multi layered war of aggression being waged against it by over 80 hostile nations and their proxy armies of mercenaries and terrorists.
Russia unaware of US “Plan B” for Syria
The
Syrian government says it is determined to defeat terrorism and
protect the country's territorial integrity.This, in reaction to the
comments of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has said it would
be hard to hold Syria together if the fighting in the country did not
stop. Moscow says it’s unaware of Washington’s plan B in Syria if
a ceasefire agreement, hammered by the two sides, fails to work. A
source in the Russian Foreign Ministry says the implementation of the
agreement has already begun and that the US side should not give up
ahead of time. John Kerry has called the partitioning of Syria part
of Washington’s plan B if the ceasefire deal fails to work. He also
warned that the US will resort to plan B if a shift to a transitional
government does not take place in the coming months.
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