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Putin : Arms shipments to Syria should stop

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cartoon assad putinIt is necessary that arms imports to all sides in the Syrian conflict are halted, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in Hannover , Germany, adding that Russia is ready to discuss this.

“As for Syria we don’t have a solution yet. What do I think should be done? Halt arms import to the country, but to all sides of the conflict,” he said at the annual industrial fair in Hannover.

Responding to a question about Russia supplying weapons to Syria, Putin said, “We supply the legitimate regime. This is not prohibited by international law.”

“There are international legal norms stating that it is unacceptable to supply arms to the armed groups that strive to destabilize the situation in a certain country with the use of arms,” Putin said, describing the situation in Syria as “a disaster” and “a catastrophe.”

“This has to stop,” he concluded.

Some 70,000 people have been killed over the past two years in a revolt that started with peaceful protests but descended into a civil war after Assad’s forces shot and arrested thousands of opposition members.

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10 responses to “Putin : Arms shipments to Syria should stop”

  1. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    To Putin Israeli security is more important than Bashar Al-Qaeda. The West impose an embargo on arms preventing the rebels having arms but the rebel managed to capture many Russian arms from the thugs of assad. Now that embargo strategy is not working and now Russia it self is alarmed as those arms sold to Bashar are falling in to the rebel hand.

  2. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    To Putin Israeli security is more important than Bashar Al-Qaeda. The West impose an embargo on arms preventing the rebels having arms but the rebel managed to capture many Russian arms from the thugs of assad. Now that embargo strategy is not working and now Russia it self is alarmed as those arms sold to Bashar are falling in to the rebel hand.

  3. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    MOSCOW, Sept 6,2010:Russia Boosts Military Ties With Israel “We have signed a long-term agreement on military cooperation,” said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov after the meeting with his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak, quoted by Russian news agencies“We are ready to continue sharing experience with the Russian military on fighting terrorism and ensuring security, including by using air drones” Ehud Barak said.

    During the defence agreement between Israel and Russia Ehud Barak noted “improving relations” between Russia and Israel, and thanked Russia for its fight against fascism during World War II. “We know the truth: the state of Israel would not exist if the Red Army had not defeated fascist Germany,” Ehud Barak said!

    Well 94% Israeli are Ashkenazim Jew who are ethnically Russian, so it is well presumed that Russian military base in Tartus Syria is to protect the “Little Russia” Next to Syria

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Ehud Barak forgets that a US General was ready to keep going to Moscow … and they could have stayed there if he had.

  4. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    MOSCOW, Sept 6,2010:Russia Boosts Military Ties With Israel “We have signed a long-term agreement on military cooperation,” said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov after the meeting with his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak, quoted by Russian news agencies“We are ready to continue sharing experience with the Russian military on fighting terrorism and ensuring security, including by using air drones” Ehud Barak said.

    During the defence agreement between Israel and Russia Ehud Barak noted “improving relations” between Russia and Israel, and thanked Russia for its fight against fascism during World War II. “We know the truth: the state of Israel would not exist if the Red Army had not defeated fascist Germany,” Ehud Barak said!

    Well 94% Israeli are Ashkenazim Jew who are ethnically Russian, so it is well presumed that Russian military base in Tartus Syria is to protect the “Little Russia” Next to Syria

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Ehud Barak forgets that a US General was ready to keep going to Moscow … and they could have stayed there if he had.

  5. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    This would be bad for business in Russia — I wonder if the Russian arms manufacturers will ‘vote’ for Putin in the next ‘election’??

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      They are probably buying stock in the US-arms companies now … :-))

  6. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    This would be bad for business in Russia — I wonder if the Russian arms manufacturers will ‘vote’ for Putin in the next ‘election’??

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      They are probably buying stock in the US-arms companies now … :-))

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