MADAyuMadyan - G20:
Obama di bawah tekanan untuk tidak menyerang. Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack
Obama sedang menghadapi tekanan yang semakin meningkat daripada Presiden Rusia
Vladimir Putin tidak melancarkan serangan ketenteraan terhadap Syria. Pada
mesyuarat G20 di St Petersburg, perbincangan diteruskan makan malam rasmi di Istana
Peterhof.
Perselisihan
bannyak yang Syria dibayangi perbincangan mengenai ekonomi DUNIA. Sementara
itu, Kremlin telah menolak tuduhan Rusia memberi bantuan senjata kimia ke
Syria. Sergei Ivanov, Kremlin Ketua Turus, jelas sangat marah: “Selepas saya
mendengar Ketua Pentagon berkata Rusia membekalkan senjata kimia ke Syria, maka
dia memperbetulkan sendiri mengatakan ia bukan senjata kimia, tetapi cara-cara
untuk pembangunan dan pengeluaran. Ini, saya minta maaf jika saya hilang sabar
saya, sampah, sampah semata-mata, “katanya.
Di
Lithuania, Menteri Pertahanan EU bertemu pada hari Khamis untuk cuba untuk
bekerja di luar pendirian yang sama ke atas Syria. Catherine Ashton, Ketua EU
Diplomasi, tidak langsung menyalahkan Presiden Assad untuk serangan kimia 4
Ogos:
“Saya
tidak pernah mendengar sesiapa yang berkata kepada saya bahawa ini tidak
menjadi serangan kimia. Saya telah bercakap dengan negara-negara yang berbeza,
sesetengah daripada mereka mungkin mengambil pandangan yang berbeza yang pelaku
itu, tetapi tiada siapa yang berhujah soalannya,” katanya. Setiausaha Negara
Amerika Syarikat John Kerry dijadualkan tiba di Lithuania pada hari Sabtu untuk
menolak pendirian yang sukar terhadap Assad daripada rakan-rakan EU beliau.
G20: Obama under
pressure not to attack . . .
American president Barack Obama is facing growing pressure from Russia's president Vladimir Putin not to launch military strikes against Syria. At the G20 meeting in St Petersburg, discussions continued over a formal dinner at the Peterhof palace.
American president Barack Obama is facing growing pressure from Russia's president Vladimir Putin not to launch military strikes against Syria. At the G20 meeting in St Petersburg, discussions continued over a formal dinner at the Peterhof palace.
The rift over Syria overshadowed discussions on the world
economy. Meanwhile the Kremlin has rejected accusations Russia gave chemical
weapons assistance to Syria. Sergei Ivanov, Kremlin Chief of Staff, is clearly
annoyed: "After I heard the Pentagon Chief said Russia supplied chemical
weapons to Syria, then he corrected himself saying it was not chemical weapons,
but the means for their development and production. This, I apologise if I lose
my temper, is rubbish, sheer rubbish," he said.
In Lithuania, EU Defence Ministers met on Thursday to try to
work out a common stance over Syria. Catherine Ashton, the EU Chief of
Diplomacy, didn't directly blame President Assad for the chemical attacks of
August 4:
"I've not heard anyone say to me that this hasn't been a
chemical attack. I've been talking with different countries, some of them may
take different view of who the perpetrator was, but nobody is arguing the
question," she said. US Secretary John Kerry is due to arrive in Lithuania
on Saturday to push for a tougher stance against Assad from his EU
counterparts.
