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PUTIN: RUSSIA ARMING LEGITIMATE GOV'T IN SYRIA, WEST ARMING ORGAN-EATERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the Western countries
for arming foreign-backed militants fighting the Syrian government,
warning that such move contradicts basic human values since the armed
groups are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
During a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David
Cameron on Sunday, Putin said: "You will not deny that one does not
really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies,
but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public
and cameras. Are these the people you want to support? Is it them
who you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little
relation to humanitarian values that have been preached in Europe
for hundreds of years."
Putin was referring to video footage surfaced on the Internet last
month of a militant eating what appeared to be the heart of a dead
Syrian soldier.
In an interview with Time magazine on May 14, the cannibal militant,
known by his nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, confirmed that the video is
real and that he did indeed take a bite of the soldier's lung. Human
Rights Watch said it was a war crime.
Putin said that Russia by contrast was arming the legitimate government
of Syria "We are not breaching any rules and norms and we call on
all our partners to act in the same fashion," he said.
Speaking after a difficult meeting with Putin in Northern Ireland,
Cameron claimed both men were in agreement on the need to end the
human catastrophe of the Syrian crisis. But there was little to
suggest the two men made progress on how to convene a fresh Syrian
peace conference in Geneva, let alone who should attend, or its agenda.
"There are very big differences between the analysis we have of what
happened in Syria and who is to blame but where there is common ground
is that we both see a humanitarian catastrophe," Cameron said.
"What I take from our conversation today is that we can overcome
these differences if we recognize that we share some fundamental aims:
to end the conflict, to stop Syria breaking apart, to let the Syrian
people decide who governs them and to take the fight to the extremists
and defeat them," he said.
Source: Agencies
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Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the Western countries
for arming foreign-backed militants fighting the Syrian government,
warning that such move contradicts basic human values since the armed
groups are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
During a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David
Cameron on Sunday, Putin said: "You will not deny that one does not
really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies,
but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public
and cameras. Are these the people you want to support? Is it them
who you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little
relation to humanitarian values that have been preached in Europe
for hundreds of years."
Putin was referring to video footage surfaced on the Internet last
month of a militant eating what appeared to be the heart of a dead
Syrian soldier.
In an interview with Time magazine on May 14, the cannibal militant,
known by his nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, confirmed that the video is
real and that he did indeed take a bite of the soldier's lung. Human
Rights Watch said it was a war crime.
Putin said that Russia by contrast was arming the legitimate government
of Syria "We are not breaching any rules and norms and we call on
all our partners to act in the same fashion," he said.
Speaking after a difficult meeting with Putin in Northern Ireland,
Cameron claimed both men were in agreement on the need to end the
human catastrophe of the Syrian crisis. But there was little to
suggest the two men made progress on how to convene a fresh Syrian
peace conference in Geneva, let alone who should attend, or its agenda.
"There are very big differences between the analysis we have of what
happened in Syria and who is to blame but where there is common ground
is that we both see a humanitarian catastrophe," Cameron said.
"What I take from our conversation today is that we can overcome
these differences if we recognize that we share some fundamental aims:
to end the conflict, to stop Syria breaking apart, to let the Syrian
people decide who governs them and to take the fight to the extremists
and defeat them," he said.
Source: Agencies
17-06-2013 - 14:10 Last updated 17-06-2013 - 14:10 | 747 View
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=97879&cid=22&fromval=1&frid=22&se ccatid=45&s1=1