Putin condemns USA for lack of logic and good conscience

[Lankan Ranger]

Foreign Policy of Russia controlled by Russian president Dmitry medvedev

 

[Lankan Ranger]

Earlier both of them allowed UN Security Council resolution

 

[DV RULES]

Latest UN resolution on Libya looks like call for crusade - Putin

21.03.2011, 15.12





VOTKINSK, March 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The latest UN Security Council’s resolution on Libya is reminiscent of medieval calls for crusades, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

“The UN Security Council resolution is certainly faulty and deficient,” he said. “It allows for an invasion of a sovereign country. It looks like a medieval call for a crusade.”

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=16071447&PageNum=0

Medvedev calls for cautiousness in assessing int’l situation

21.03.2011, 18.06





GORKI, March 21 (Itar-Tass) -- President Dmitry Medvedev said one should be as careful as possible when assessing events in other countries.

“It is unacceptable to use terms that will essentially lead to a collision of civilisations like ‘crusades’ and the like. This is unacceptable,” Medvedev said on Monday, March 21.

Earlier, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticized the U.N. Security Council resolution on Libya and said it reminded him of a call for a crusade.

“The UN Security Council resolution is certainly faulty and deficient,” he said. “It allows for an invasion of a sovereign country. It looks like a medieval call for a crusade.”

“I do not consider this resolution wrong. On the whole it reflects our understanding of what is happening,” Medvedev said.

“It was a qualified refusal to veto [it],” he added, commenting on Russia’s abstention from voting.

“We did it conscientiously. Such were my instructions to the Foreign Ministry,” the president said.

Putin's statement is continuity of previous his foreign policy toward west, EU ever criticize Putin for his hard line & strictness, they ever preferred Medvedev, after Medvedev was selected for President US & NATO actively made lobby to support Medvedev than Putin.

Putin a successful spy of his time & worked over NATO activities in his job description while staying in Dusseldorf, Germany so we can't ignore his statement.
Coming days will be interesting in Russian politics in Kremlin and further reaction of RF over this issues.
Their interests with syria are more than Libya. as recently RF FM sais:

RF FM hopes problems in Syria can be solved by dialogue

21.03.2011, 20.28





MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Foreign Ministry hopes that the existing problems in Syria will be solved without violence and through dialogue with the population.

According to the ministry, “protest actions took places in several cities of Syria. Protesters called for liberalizing political life. Clashes were held with law enforcers.”

“Moscow believes that the existing problems may be solved without violence and by dialogue between the authorities and the population in order to strengthen stability and ensure national accord,” the ministry said.

At least five people have been killed in fresh clashes between Kurds and police in northern Syria, reports say.

A Kurdish politician told the Associated Press that two Kurds and three police officers were killed on March 15 in a riot in Aleppo.

Several deaths have been reported in clashes between Arabs and the Kurdish minority over the past few days, but Syria denies any political unrest.

Syria has about two million Kurds among its population of 17 million.

There was no immediate confirmation of the deaths from the Syrian Government, which has not issued any figures for casualties since clashes between Kurds and Arabs began on March 18.

Witnesses told AP that a second riot in Afrin, 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of Aleppo, led to the death of two other people.

Another Kurdish source, Mashaal Timo of the Kurdish People's Union, told the French news agency AFP that that nine Kurds had been killed in overnight clashes with Arab residents in Aleppo.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=16071897&PageNum=0

 

[Tigershark]

What's surprised me the most is how quickly the moral high ground can shift. At first the West were lauded as human-rights champions when they pushed through the no-fly resolution. Now that they've shown the UN was only a cover to bomb Gaddafi into submission, regardless of the number of Libyan casualties, it is the West that is under fire. Under fire from governments in Africa, Venezuela, Turkey, Russia, and Asia. Obama has cut his Latin America trip short, and a recent survey shows that the majority of Britons are against the intervention. I'll the sure to watch the development closely.