Moscow menggesa sekutu tentera CSTO utk menyokong penyelesaian Syria

Menteri Luar Rusia Sergei Lavrov mengambil bahagian dalam mesyuarat kumpulan keselamatan serantau, Keselamatan Pertubuhan Perjanjian Kolektif (CSTO), di resort Laut Hitam Rusia Sochi, pada 23 September 2013. (AFP Photo/Mikhail Mordasov – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Moscow menggesa sekutu tentera CSTO untuk menyokong penyelesaian Syria. Sergey Lavrov telah memberitahu satu persidangan CSTO Menteri Luar bahawa kegagalan untuk menyelesaikan krisis Syria akan mempunyai kesan negatif bukan sahaja kepada keadaan keselamatan di rantau ini, tetapi bagi keseluruhan sistem undang-undang antarabangsa .

Menteri Luar Rusia berkata demikian pada pembukaan sesi Keselamatan Pertubuhan Perjanjian Kolektif - blok Rusia yang dipimpin menyatukan 6 negara-negara jiran: Armenia , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan dan Rusia.

Pada 2014 berputar blok Presiden yang akan diambil oleh Rusia, dan kerana itu Lavrov taklimat rakan-rakannya mengenai isu-isu keutamaan semasa dalam hubungan antarabangsa.

“Kami bimbang dengan keadaan di Syria dan bukan sahaja kerana kesan negatif yang mungkin untuk rantau ini secara keseluruhannya, tetapi juga kerana kesan negatif kepada keseluruhan sistem undang-undang antarabangsa . Anda tahu tentang keperluan untuk segera menyelesaikan masalah memulakan dialog, dan tentang isu senjata kimia. Saya fikir, hari ini kita boleh menyokong usaha masyarakat antarabangsa di Syria,” kata Sergey Lavrov dalam ucapan perasmian beliau.

Pada 14 September Menteri Luar Rusia bersama-sama dengan Amerika Syarikat Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri John Kerry diselaraskan rancangan untuk mendapatkan senjata kimia Syria pada pertengahan 2014, berikutan cadangan daripada Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin. Walau bagaimanapun, perbezaan di antara Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat masih kekal - Moscow menegaskan bahawa apa-apa perbezaan dan pertikaian diselesaikan melalui perundingan dengan Majlis Keselamatan PBB, manakala Amerika Syarikat menunjukkan bahawa mana-mana pelanggaran yang disyaki diuruskan oleh kuasa tentera.

Di samping itu, Menteri Rusia sekali lagi memberi amaran kepada rakan-rakannya tentang gangguan yang mungkin keadaan tentera -politik di rantau Asia Tengah yang berkaitan dengan pengeluaran yang dirancang kuasa gabungan dari Afghanistan.

Afghanistan telah status pemerhati dengan CSTO dan ahli Tajikistan bersempadan dengan negara ini.

Para peserta sesi kemudiannya membincangkan rancangan kerjasama ketenteraan antara negara-negara CSTO sehingga 2020 serta penempatan pasukan pengaman PBB dari blok dan membentuk sistem keselamatan kolektif.

Moscow urges military allies CSTO to support Syria settlement

Sergey Lavrov has told a conference of CSTO Foreign Ministers that the failure to solve the Syrian crisis would have negative consequences not only for security situation in the region, but for the whole system of international law.

The Russian Foreign Minister was speaking at the opening of the session of Collective Security Treaty Organization – the Russia-led bloc uniting six neighboring countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia.

In 2014 the rotating presidency of the bloc will be taken by Russia, and because of that Lavrov briefed his colleagues on current priority issues in international relations.

“We are concerned with the situation in Syria and not only because of possible negative consequences to the region as a whole, but also because of the negative consequences to the whole system of international law. You know about the necessity to quickly solve the problem of starting the dialogue, and about the chemical weapons issue. I think, today we can support the international community’s efforts on Syria,” Sergey Lavrov said in his opening speech.

On September 14 the Russian Foreign Minister together with the US State Secretary John Kerry coordinated a plan to secure Syrian chemical weapons by mid-2014, following a suggestion from Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, the differences between Russia and US still remain – Moscow insists that any discrepancies and disputes are solved through consultation with the UN Security Council, while the United States suggests that any suspected violations are dealt with by military force.

In addition, the Russian minister again warned his colleagues about possible aggravation of the military-political situation in the Central Asian region in connection with the planned withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has observer status with the CSTO and member Tajikistan borders this country.

The participants of the session then went on to discuss the plan of military cooperation between the CSTO nations up to 2020 as well as deployment of peacekeeping forces from the bloc and forming a collective security system.

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Iran perarakan peluru berpandu dengan pelbagai sehingga 2,000 km

SitiWanMahani - Video: Iran perarakan peluru berpandu dengan pelbagai sehingga 2,000 km. Tentera Iran berarak 30 peluru berpandu jarak sederhana dengan pelbagai sehingga 2,000 kilometer (1,250 batu) di jalan-jalan Tehran Ahad, sebahagian daripada perarakan tahunan menandakan ulang tahun tercetusnya 1980-1988 perang Iran-Iraq. Sebanyak 12 Sejil dan 18 peluru berpandu Ghadr dipamerkan.

Video: Iran parades missiles with range of up to 2,000 km. Iran's military paraded 30 medium-range missiles with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) down the streets of Tehran Sunday, part of an annual parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. A total of 12 Sejil and 18 Ghadr missiles were showcased.

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Assad: Pengganas boleh menyerang pemeriksa senjata kimia, menyalahkan Damsyik . . .

Syrian President Bashar Al ‘Assad (AFP Photo/SANA – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Assad: Pengganas boleh menyerang pemeriksa senjata kimia, menyalahkan Damsyik. Pembangkang bersenjata Syria yang diperintahkan oleh penaja asing untuk mengadakan operasi bendera palsu terhadap pemeriksa asing apabila mereka tiba di negara ini untuk memantau kemusnahan kimia simpanan senjata di negara ini, kata Presiden Syria.

Bashar Assad menyuarakan kebimbangan beliau dalam satu temu bual oleh kerajaan televisyen CCTV China di Damsyik. Pemimpin Syria mencadangkan senario ini mungkin kerana beliau menjelaskan bagaimana kerajaan boleh dituduh cuba untuk mengelakkan kewajipan untuk memusnahkan senjata kimia.

“Kita tahu bahawa pengganas yang mentaati perintah negara-negara lain dan negara-negara melakukan memandu pengganas untuk melakukan perbuatan yang boleh mendapatkan kerajaan Syria dipersalahkan kerana menghalang perjanjian ini,” jelas beliau.

Rusia menaja perjanjian dengan Syria untuk melupuskan stok daripada senjata kimia di tengah-tengah ancaman Amerika Syarikat untuk menggunakan kuasa tentera menentang tentera Syria ke atas penggunaan dakwaan sarin gas, yang mengorbankan kira-kira 1,400 orang pada bulan Ogos.

Moscow menjangka Pertubuhan bagi Larangan Senjata Kimia (OPCW), yang menerima inventori terperinci senjata Syria minggu lepas, untuk menyediakan tarikh akhir untuk operasi. Ia juga merancang untuk bekerjasama dengan ahli-ahli Majlis Keselamatan PBB pada resolusi, yang akan menyokong pelan OPCW dan mengadakan peruntukan bagi keselamatan pemeriksa, yang akan mengawal pelucutan senjata.

Tetapi Washington, London dan Paris berkeras resolusi UNSC yang akan melibatkan langkah-langkah punitif terhadap Damsyik untuk mana-mana mungkin menghalang operasi di bawah Piagam Bab 7 PBB. Bab 7 membolehkan penguatkuasaan resolusi Majlis Keselamatan dengan tindakan ketenteraan. Rusia menentang peruntukan tersebut.

Assad: Terrorists may attack chemical weapons inspectors, 

blame Damascus . . .

Syrian armed opposition may be ordered by its foreign sponsors to stage a false flag operation against foreign inspectors when they arrive in the country to monitor destruction of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile, says the Syrian president.

Bashar Assad voiced his concerns in an interview by China's state television CCTV in Damascus. The Syrian leader proposed this possible scenario as he was explaining how his government may be accused of trying to dodge its obligations to destroy its chemical arsenal.

“We know that these terrorists are obeying the orders of other countries and these countries do drive these terrorists to commit acts that could get the Syrian government blamed for hindering this agreement,” he explained.

Russia brokered an agreement with Syria to dispose of its stockpile of chemical weapons amid US threats to use military force against Syrian army over alleged use of sarin gas, which killed an estimated 1,400 people in August.

Moscow expects the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which received detailed inventory of the Syrian arsenal last week, to prepare a deadline for the operation. It also plans to work with other members of the UN Security Council on a resolution, which would support the OPCW plan and provide for security of the inspectors, who would control the disarmament.

But Washington, London and Paris are insisting on a UNSC resolution which would involve punitive measures against Damascus for any possible hindering of the operation under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter. Chapter 7 allows for the enforcement of Security Council resolutions with military action. Russia opposes such provisions.

Mesyuarat Majlis Keselamatan PBB, di ibu pejabat PBB di New York (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand  (UN Security Council meeting, at the United Nations headquarter in New York (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Bercakap pada perbahasan UNSC, Assad berkata tiga kuasa-kuasa Barat berjuang sebagai ‘musuh khayalan.

“Dengan menghantar draf kepada Majlis Keselamatan PBB, atau menggesa Amerika Syarikat dan Rusia bersetuju dengan perjanjian, Amerika Syarikat, Perancis dan Britain hanya cuba untuk menjadikan diri mereka pemenang dalam perang terhadap Syria yang merupakan musuh khayalan mereka, “katanya.

Presiden itu berkata beliau yakin bahawa Rusia dan China akan “memastikan apa-apa alasan untuk tindakan ketenteraan terhadap Syria tidak dapat ditegakkan.”

Ditanya untuk maklumat lanjut mengenai simpanan senjata kimia, Assad berkata, “Syria pembuatan senjata kimia telah selama beberapa dekad jadi ia biasa untuk di sana untuk menjadi jumlah yang terbesar di negara ini.”

Senjata WMD telah diwujudkan kerana konfrontasi Syria dengan Israel, katapemimpin Syria.

“Kami adalah sebuah negara yang berperang, kami mempunyai wilayah yang telah diduduki selama lebih daripada 40 tahun, tetapi dalam mana-mana, tentera Syria dilatih untuk berjuang menggunakan senjata konvensional,” Assad terjamin.

Sambil mengakui bahawa keadaan keselamatan Syria adalah jauh dari sempurna untuk kerja-kerja pemeriksa OPCW, Assad berkata senjata adalah selamat daripada diambil oleh mana-mana pihak.

lanya disimpan “di bawah syarat-syarat khas untuk menghalang mana-mana pengganas untuk angkatan pemusnah lain daripada mengganggu dengan mereka, iaitu, kuasa pemusnah yang boleh datang dari negara-negara lain,” katanya.

“Jadi, tiada apa yang perlu dibimbangkan. Senjata-senjata kimia di Syria berada di tempat yang selamat dgn selamat dan di bawah kawalan tentera Syria.”

Terdahulu China berkata ia bersedia untuk menghantar pakar-pakar untuk menyumbang kepada misi OPCW untuk memusnahkan senjata kimia di Syria. Rusia berjanji bantuan, yang mungkin akan melibatkan mendapatkan lokasi di mana stok akan diproses.

Speaking on the UNSC debate, Assad said the three Western powers are fighting an ‘imaginary enemy’.

“By submitting the draft to the UN Security Council, or by urging the US and Russia to agree on a deal, the US, France, and Britain are just trying to make themselves winners in a war against a Syria which is their imaginary enemy," he said.

The president said he was assured that Russia and China would "ensure any excuse for military action against Syria will not stand."

Asked for details on the stockpile of chemical weapons, Assad said, “Syria has been manufacturing chemical weapons for decades so it's normal for there to be large quantities in the country.”

The WMD arsenal was created due to Syria’s confrontation with Israel, the Syrian leader said.

"We are a nation at war, we've got territories that have been occupied for more than 40 years, but in any case, the Syrian army is trained to fight using conventional weapons," Assad assured.

While admitting that the security situation is Syria is far from perfect for the work of OPCW inspectors, Assad said the weapons are safe from being captured by any party.

They are stored “under special conditions to prevent any terrorist for other destructive forces from tampering with them, that is, destructive forces that could come from other countries,” he said.

"So there is nothing to worry about. The chemical weapons in Syria are in a safe place that is secure and under the control of the Syrian army."

Earlier China said it is willing to send experts to contribute to the OPCW’s mission to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons. Russia pledged its assistance, which would probably involve securing locations where the stockpile would be processed.

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Canselor Jerman dan pemimpin Kesatuan Demokratik Kristian (CDU) Angela Merkel meraikan dengan ahli-ahli parti selepas pemilihan . . .

TOP NEWS Photos: Canselor Jerman dan pemimpin Kesatuan Demokratik Kristian (CDU) Angela Merkel meraikan dengan ahli-ahli parti selepas pemilihan pertama keluar dalam pilihan raya umum Jerman (Bundestagswahl) di ibu pejabat parti CDU di Berlin September 22, 2013. Canselor Angela Merkel memenangi kemenangan peribadi tanah runtuh dalam pilihan raya Jerman pada Ahad, meletakkan beliau dalam jangkauan majoriti mutlak pertama di Parlimen pada separuh abad, satu pengesahan nada kepimpinan mantap beliau dalam krisis euro. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel berlagak seperti dia membuang undi beliau semasa pilihan raya umum German (Bundestagswahl) pada tempat mengundi di dalam Berlin, September 22, 2013. Orang yang di sebelah kiri adalah suami Merkel Joachim Sauer. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Canselor Jerman dan konservatif Christian Democratic Union (CDU) pemimpin Angela Merkel memberikan ucapan semasa CDU pilihan raya perhimpunan kempen di Berlin September 21, 2013. Merkel kelihatan pada landasan yang betul untuk memenangi penggal ketiga dalam pilihan raya hujung minggu di Jerman tetapi menghadapi pertempuran untuk mengekalkan majoriti pusat-kanannya dan mengelakkan gabungan berpotensi memecah-belahkan dengan pusat-kiri REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Canselor Jerman dan konservatif Christian Democratic Union (CDU) pemimpin Angela Merkel (kiri), berdiri di sebelah Bavaria Negeri Perdana Menteri Horst Seehofer, gelombang semasa perhimpunan kempen pilihan raya di Fulda September 19, 2013. Merkel memohon satu penggal ketiga dalam pilihan raya parlimen pada 22 September. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Gambar fail Gabungan Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel, membawa beg tangan yang membentuk warna bendera kebangsaan Jerman, kerana dia meninggalkan semasa sesi rumah yang lebih rendah parlimen Jerman Bundestag di Reichstag di Berlin. Merkel, anak perempuan seorang paderi Protestan bijaksana dari Jerman Timur, kelihatan pasti untuk memenangi penggal 4 tahun yang ke-3 dalam pilihan raya pada 22 September 2013, menjadikannya seorang daripada hanya 3 pemimpin selepas perang untuk mencapai feat itu, selepas Helmut Kohl dan Konrad Adenauer. Popular di rumah untuk pengendalian mantap beliau daripada krisis zon euro dan gaya kepimpinan yang sederhana, Merkel menghadapi cabaran dasar utama jika dia menang pada hari Ahad. Gambar yang diambil (LR) September 8, 2011, 12 September, 2012 dan Disember 15, 2011. REUTERS/Staff/Files (GERMANY - POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ELECTIONS – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Kakitangan meletakkan sentuhan terakhir (kenapa simbol Freemason/Illuminati)!? ke tangan tokoh lilin Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel sebelum persembahan di muzium lilin Madame Tussauds di Berlin, September 19, 2013. Angka lilin baru Merkel, yang kedua dalam koleksi Madame Tussauds telah dimodelkan pada gambar dari acara kempen tahun ini untuk pilihan raya umum akan datang, kata seorang jurucakap muzium. (Seorang kakitangan meletakkan sentuhan terakhir ke tangan seorang tokoh lilin Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel sebelum persembahan di muzium lilin Madame Tussauds di Berlin, September 19, 2013. Angka lilin baru Merkel, yang kedua di Madame Tussauds koleksi, telah mencontohi gambar dari acara kempen tahun ini untuk pilihan raya umum yang akan datang, kata seorang jurucakap muzium itu. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Tirai jatuh pada 2 tokoh wax Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel semasa acara publisiti di muzium wax Madame Tussauds di Berlin, September 19, 2013. Angka wax baru Merkel di sebelah kiri telah dimodelkan pada gambar dari acara kempen tahun ini untuk pilihan raya umum yang akan datang. Angka wax tua telah dimodelkan pada imej-imej yang diambil ketika dia pertama memegang jawatan Canselor pada tahun 2005, kata seorang jurucakap muzium itu. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Orang mengambil gambar di hadapan poster kempen pilihan raya menunjukkan Canselor Jerman dan ketua Kesatuan Demokratik Kristian pihak (CDU) Angela Merkel di Berlin September 19, 2013. Pengundi Jerman akan mengambil ke pemilihan dalam pilihan raya umum pada 22 September. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY– think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

TOP NEWS Photos: Pelancong meniru tanda isyarat (kenapa simbol Freemason/Illuminati)!? tangan rombus Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel kerana mereka berdiri di sebelah angka wax beliau di muzium lilin Madame Tussauds di Berlin, September 19, 2013. Angka lilin baru Merkel, yang ke-2 di Madame Tussauds koleksi, telah mencontohi gambar dari acara kempen tahun ini untuk pilihan raya umum yang akan datang, kata seorang jurucakap muzium itu. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - POLITICS ELECTIONS ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Full Length Movies 'Open Range' . . .

SitiWanMahani | Full Length Movies - Open Range is a 2003 Western film directed and co-produced by Kevin Costner. Starring Robert Duvall and Costner, with Annette Bening andMichael Gambon appearing in supporting roles. The film was the final on-screen appearance of Michael Jeter, who died before it was released, and the film was dedicated to Jeter's memory, and to that of Costner's parents, Bill and Sharon.

The film was a box office success, and was critically favored.

Plot

"Boss" Spearman (Duvall) is an open range cattleman, who, with hired hands Charley (Costner), Mose (Benrubi) and Button (Luna), is driving a herd cross country. Charley is a former soldier who fought in the Civil War and feels guilty over his past as a killer.

Boss sends Mose to the nearby town of Harmonville for supplies. The town is controlled by a ruthless Irish immigrant land baron, Denton Baxter (Gambon), who hates open-rangers. Mose is badly beaten and jailed by the marshal, Poole (Russo). The only friendly inhabitant is Percy (Jeter), a livery stable owner.

Boss and Charley become concerned when Mose does not return. They retrieve him from the jail but not before getting a warning from Baxter about free-grazing on his land. Mose's injuries are so severe that Boss and Charley take him to Doc Barlow (McDermott). There they meet Sue Barlow (Bening). Charley is attracted immediately, but assumes that Sue is the doctor's wife.

After catching masked riders scouting their cattle, Boss and Charley sneak up on their campfire in the night, and disarm them. At the same time, another attack results in Mose's death. Button is badly injured and left for dead. Charley and Boss vow to avenge this injustice. They leave Button at the doctor's house and go into town, where they lock Poole in his own jail. Boss knocks him out with chloroform he has stolen from the doctor's office. The deputies are locked up as well.

Charley learns that Sue is the doctor's sister, not his wife. He declares his feelings for her, and she gives him a locket for luck. Charley leaves a note with Percy, in which he states that if he should die, money from the sale of his saddle and gear are to be used to buy Sue a new tea set.

Boss and Charley are pitted against Baxter and his men. Charley shoots Butler (Coates), the gunman who shot Button and killed Mose. A gunfight erupts in the street, with Boss, Charley and Percy outnumbered before the townspeople begin to openly fight against Baxter. After an intense firefight, Baxter's men are dead and Baxter ends up wounded and alone, trapped in the jailhouse. Boss rushes to the jail, mortally wounding Baxter.

Sue's brother tends to the wounded townspeople and open-rangers. Charley speaks to Sue in private, telling her he must leave. She counters that she has a "big idea" about their future together and that she will wait for him to return. He does return, and proposes to Sue. Charley and Boss decide to give up the cattle business and settle down in Harmonville, taking over the saloon.

Amerika Syarikat blackmails Rusia: Tiada usaha senjata kimia jika tiada resolusi PBB keras di Syria . . .

SitiWanMahani - 'Amerika Syarikat blackmails Rusia: Tiada usaha senjata kimia jika tiada resolusi PBB keras di Syria. Amerika Syarikat adalah menolak Rusia ke dalam meluluskan resolusi PBB yang akan membolehkan untuk campur tangan ketenteraan di Syria, Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov berkata, sebagai pertukaran untuk sokongan Amerika kesertaan Syria untuk OPCW.

'US blackmails Russia': No chem arms effort if no harsh UN resolution on Syria. The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, in exchange for American support of Syria's accession to OPCW.

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Lavrov: Amerika Syarikat mendesak Rusia meluluskan resolusi PBB ke atas Syria di bawah Bab 7 . . .

Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov. (Screenshot daripada Channel 1 Time programme 1 Ahad) (Screenshot from Channel 1 Sunday Time programme - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - (RT. Published time: 09:48 September 22, 2013) Lavrov: US mendesak Rusia meluluskan resolusi PBB ke atas Syria di bawah Bab 7. Amerika Syarikat menolak Rusia ke dalam meluluskan resolusi PBB yang akan membolehkan untuk campur tangan ketenteraan di Syria, sebagai pertukaran untuk sokongan Amerika kesertaan Syria untuk OPCW, Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov berkata.

“Rakan-rakan Amerika mula memeras ugut kami: ‘Jika Rusia tidak menyokong resolusi di bawah Bab 7, maka kami akan menarik balik sokongan kami untuk masuk ke Syria Pertubuhan bagi Larangan Senjata Kimia (OPCW). Ini adalah berlepas lengkap dari apa yang saya bersetuju dengan Setiausaha Negara John Kerry’, “kata Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov memberitahu Channel 1 Ahad Time program.

Bab 7 Piagam PBB akan membolehkan campur tangan tentera yang berpotensi di Syria.

Negara-negara Barat buta oleh 'Assad mesti pergi 

kerana tingkahlaku

Ketua Kementerian Luar Rusia seterusnya berkata beliau terkejut dengan pendekatan Barat “cuai” kepada konflik.

“Rakan-rakan kami buta dengan misi ideologi untuk perubahan rejim,” kata Lavrov. “Mereka tidak boleh mengakui bahawa mereka telah membuat kesilapan yang lain.”

Menghempas campur tangan Barat di Libya dan Iraq, Menteri Luar menyatakan bahawa campur tangan tentera sahaja boleh membawa kepada malapetaka di rantau ini. Selain itu, beliau menegaskan bahawa jika Barat benar-benar adalah berminat dalam penyelesaian secara aman kepada konflik yang telah berlarutan selama lebih 2 tahun, mereka akan kini boleh menolak untuk masuk Syria ke OPCW di tempat yang pertama, bukan untuk penyingkiran Presiden Bashar Assad.

“Saya yakin bahawa Barat lakukan ini untuk menunjukkan bahawa mereka memanggil tembakan di Timur Tengah. Ini adalah satu pendekatan yang benar-benar dipolitikkan,” kata Lavrov.

‘Mengulangi Geneva 2012’

Lavrov mengimbas kembali kepada perjanjian Geneva tahun lepas yang telah dipersetujui oleh masyarakat antarabangsa, termasuk Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat. Walau bagaimanapun, apabila ketetapan itu pergi kepada Majlis Keselamatan Amerika Syarikat menuntut Bab 7 dimasukkan.

“Sejarah adalah mengulangi sendiri. Sekali lagi di Geneva perjanjian telah dicapai yang tidak mengandungi apa-apa sebutan dalam Bab 7. Tetapi Majlis Keselamatan mahu buat semula dokumen itu dengan cara mereka sendiri untuk memasukkan ia.”

Beliau menggesa Barat untuk mematuhi undang-undang antarabangsa dan berhenti menulis resolusi didorong “cita-cita geopolitik” oleh mereka.

‘Kedua-dua pihak perlu menyerahkan senjata kimia’

Sergey Lavrov juga telah menegaskan bahawa pihak pembangkang mengambil bahagian dalam pelucutan tauliah stok simpanan senjata kimia di Syria.

“Penyelesaian yang sedang bekerja di OPCW mencadangkan bahawa semua stok senjata kimia Syria mesti dibawa di bawah kawalan dan akhirnya dimusnahkan.”

Lavrov lagi mendakwa bahawa Barat adalah “tidak memberitahu seluruh kisah ini” dengan menyatakan bahawa senjata kimia hanya dimiliki oleh rejim, dan bukan pembangkang.

Beliau menambah bahawa maklumat yang disediakan oleh Israel mengesahkan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 2 kali, pemberontak telah merampas kawasan-kawasan di mana senjata kimia telah disimpan dan senjata mereka mungkin telah jatuh ke tangan mereka.

“Menurut anggaran kami, ada kemungkinan yang kuat bahawa di samping makmal rumah tempatan di mana militan cuba untuk memasak ramuan yang membahayakan dan berbahaya, data yang disediakan oleh Israel adalah benar,” kata Rusia FM.

“Kerja Persediaan untuk pemeriksa OPCW untuk mengambil alih kawalan laman kimia penyimpanan senjata memerlukan orang-orang yang membiayai dan menaja kumpulan pembangkang - termasuk pelampau - permintaan mereka menyerahkan [tangan] yang telah disita supaya mereka boleh memusnahkannya, menurut Konvensyen tentang Larangan Senjata Kimia.”

Lavrov berkata bahawa Rusia tidak penjamin seorang bagi pelucutan senjata kimia di Syria, sebagai komitmen Syria jatuh di bawah naungan Konvensyen Senjata Kimia, yang di peringkat antarabangsa yang ditadbir oleh OPCW itu.

Lavrov berkata, Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat telah bekerja di luar draf resolusi yang akan dikemukakan kepada OPCW, walaupun beberapa perkara masih belum dipersetujui.

Logistik kemusnahan

Sergey Lavrov berkata bahawa tempoh masa bagi penghapusan senjata kimia Syria tidak realistik.

“Sebahagian besar daripada angka-angka sebagai satu masa, panjang, permulaan, penamat misi telah dicadangkan oleh pihak Amerika,” katanya.

Walaupun tempoh masa yang boleh dilaksanakan, masih ada perbezaan pendapat mengenai kos usaha.

Awal minggu ini, Presiden Assad berkata kemusnahan senjata senjata kimia di Syria akan menjadi satu usaha yang mahal.

“Ia memerlukan banyak wang, ia memerlukan kira-kira 1 bilion [dolar Amerika Syarikat]. Ia amat memudaratkan alam sekitar. Jika pentadbiran Amerika bersedia untuk membayar wang itu, dan mengambil tanggungjawab untuk membawa bahan-bahan toksik ke Amerika Syarikat, mengapa mereka tidak melakukannya?” Assad memberitahu Fox News

Lavrov berkata beliau telah mendengar tentang anggaran kos, walaupun semasa rundingan dengan rakan sejawatannya dari Amerika Syarikat di Geneva minggu lepas, angka itu jauh lebih rendah. Lavrov berkata perbezaan berpunca daripada hakikat bahawa anggaran yang profesional adalah teratur.

“Apabila pakar OPCW melawat Syria dan melihat laman yang menyimpan senjata kimia, mereka akan memahami apa yang boleh dimusnahkan di tempat kejadian (dan ini juga boleh) dengan penggunaan peralatan mudah alih yang beberapa negeri mempunyai, dan orang-orang di mana kilang-kilang khas perlu dibina, seperti yang kita lakukan apabila memusnahkan stok simpanan senjata kimia Soviet. Tetapi bagi mereka yang perlu dibawa keluar dari negara ini - bahan-bahan toksik - akan memerlukan satu keputusan yang istimewa, kerana konvensyen itu menganggap ia penting bahawa kemusnahan yang berlaku di wilayah negara itu yang memiliki senjata kimia,” katanya.

Lavrov berkata alasan undang-undang perlu didapati untuk bergerak ke hadapan dalam kes ini, tetapi jika semua pihak boleh bersetuju pada dasarnya, kemudian merangka dokumen yang mengikat secara sah tidak akan menjadi keras.

Beliau juga berkata masalah yang akan dihadapi dalam memastikan keselamatan kedua-dua pakar-pakar Syria dan antarabangsa ditugaskan untuk membawa senjata kimia di bawah kawalan dan meletakkan asas bagi pemusnahan utama mereka.

“Kami menganggap bahawa kehadiran antarabangsa akan menuntut di kawasan-kawasan di mana pakar-pakar yang bekerja. Kami bersedia untuk memperuntukkan askar kita sendiri atau polis tentera untuk mengambil bahagian dalam usaha-usaha ini. Saya tidak percaya ia adalah perlu untuk menghantar yang kuat [tentera] kontingensi]. Ia seolah-olah bahawa ia akan mencukupi untuk menghantar pemerhati tentera. Ia akan menjadi perlu untuk melakukannya dalam apa-apa cara yang pemerhati akan datang dari semua anggota tetap Majlis Keselamatan PBB, negara-negara Arab dan Turki, supaya semua pihak yang bercanggah di Syria faham bahawa kontinjen ini mewakili semua kuasa-kuasa luar yang bekerjasama dengan satu atau pihak lain yang bercanggah di Syria . . . supaya mereka tidak mengambil tindakan provokasi,” katanya.

Lavrov mengulangi kenyataan dahulu yang dibuat semasa rundingan dengan Setiausaha Negara John Kerry berikutan rundingan mereka di Geneva minggu lepas bahawa pembangkang adalah sama-sama bertanggungjawab untuk menyediakan untuk keselamatan OPCW dan pakar-pakar PBB di negara ini dan tidak membenarkan mana-mana “provokasi”.

Lavrov: US pressuring Russia into passing UN resolution on Syria under Chapter 7. The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, in exchange for American support of Syria’s accession to OPCW, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

“Our American partners are starting to blackmail us: ‘If Russia does not support a resolution under Chapter 7, then we will withdraw our support for Syria’s entry into the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This is a complete departure from what I agreed with Secretary of State John Kerry',” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Channel 1's Sunday Time program.

Chapter 7 of the UN charter would allow for potential military intervention in Syria.

Western countries blinded by 'Assad must go' Attitude

The head of Russia’s Foreign Ministry went on to say he was surprised by the West’s “negligent” approach to the conflict.

“Our partners are blinded by an ideological mission for regime change,” said Lavrov. “They cannot admit they have made another mistake.”

Slamming the West’s intervention in Libya and Iraq, the foreign minister stated that military intervention could only lead to a catastrophe in the region. Moreover, he stressed that if the West really was interested in a peaceful solution to the conflict that has raged for over two years, they would now be pushing for Syria’s entry into the OPCW in the first place, not for the ouster of President Bashar Assad.

“I am convinced that the West is doing this to demonstrate that they call the shots in the Middle East. This is a totally politicized approach,” said Lavrov.

'A repeat of Geneva 2012'

Lavrov harked back to last year’s Geneva accord which was agreed upon by the international community, including Russia and the US. However, when the resolution went to the Security Council the US demanded that Chapter 7 be included.

“History is repeating itself. Once again in Geneva an agreement has been reached which does not contain any mention of Chapter 7. But the Security Council wants to redo the document in their own way to include it.”

He called on the West to observe international law and stop writing resolutions motivated by their “geopolitical ambitions.”

‘Both sides must hand over chemical weapons’

Sergey Lavrov has also insisted that opposition forces take part in the decommissioning of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles.

“The solutions currently being worked out at the OPCW suggest that all stocks of Syrian chemical weapons must be brought under control and ultimately destroyed.”

Lavrov further charged that the West was “not telling the whole story” by asserting that chemical weapons are only possessed by the regime, and not the opposition.

He added that the available information provided by the Israelis confirmed that on at least two occasions, the rebels had seized areas in which chemical weapons were stored and those arms might have fallen into their hands.

"According to our estimates, there is a strong probability that in addition to home-grown labs in which militants are trying to cook up harmful and deadly concoctions, the data provided by the Israelis is true,” the Russian FM said.

“Preparatory work for OPCW inspectors to assume control of chemical weapons storage sites requires that those who fund and sponsor opposition groups –  including extremists –  demand that they hand over the [arms] which have been seized so that they can be destroyed, pursuant to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”

Lavrov added that Russia was not a guarantor for the disarmament of Syria’s chemical weapons, as Syria’s commitments fell under the auspices of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which is internationally administered by the OPCW.

Lavrov said Russia and the US were working out a draft resolution to be submitted to the OPCW, although several points were yet to be agreed upon.

Logistics of destruction

Sergey Lavrov said that the time frame for the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons was not unrealistic.

"The overwhelming majority of the figures as per timing, term, beginning, finishing of the mission have been suggested by the American side," he added.

Even if the time frame is feasible, there remains disagreement on the cost of the venture.

Earlier this week, President Assad said the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal would be a costly venture.

“It needs a lot of money, it needs about one billion [US dollars]. It’s very detrimental to the environment. If the American administration is ready to pay the money, and to take responsibility of bringing toxic materials to the United States, why don’t they do it?” Assad told Fox News

Lavrov said he had heard of the cost estimate, although during his negotiations with his US counterpart in Geneva last week, the figure was much lower. Lavrov said the discrepancy stemmed from the fact that a professional estimate was in order.

“When OPCW experts visit Syria and view the storage sites for chemical weapons, they will understand what can be destroyed on the spot (and this is also possible) with the use of mobile equipment which a number of states have, and those where special factories need to be built, as we did when destroying Soviet chemical weapons stockpiles. But for those which need to be taken out of the country – toxic substances – will require a special decision, because the convention considers it essential that the destruction takes place on the territory of that country which possesses the chemical weapons,” he said.

Lavrov said legal grounds would need to be found to move forward in this case, but if all sides could agree in principle, then drawing up a legally binding document will not be hard.

He further noted the difficulties that would be faced in assuring the security of both the Syrian and international experts tasked with bringing the chemical weapons under control and laying the groundwork for their ultimate destruction.

“We’ve considered that an international presence will be demanded in those areas where experts are working. We are prepared to allocate our own servicemen or military police to take part in those efforts. I do not believe it is necessary to send in a strong [military] contingency.] It seems to me that it will be sufficient to send in military observers. It will be necessary to do it in such a way that the observers will come from all permanent members of the UN Security Council, Arab states and Turkey, so that all conflicting sides in Syria understand that this contingent represents all external forces who are collaborating with one or the other conflicting sides in Syria . . . so that they don’t resort to provocations,” he said.

Lavrov reiterated previous statements made during his negotiations with Secretary of State John Kerry following their talks in Geneva last week that the opposition was equally responsible for providing for the safety of OPCW and UN experts in the country and not allowing for any “provocations.”