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G20 ‘Split’ as US Hits Out At Russia
G20 leaders remain divided over the Syrian conflict as they enter the final day of their Russian summit.
Italian PM Enrico Letta said the splits were confirmed during a working dinner in St Petersburg on Thursday.
At the UN, US ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia of holding the Security Council hostage by repeatedly blocking resolutions.
She said the Security Council was no longer a “viable path” for holding Syria accountable for war crimes.
The US government accuses President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of killing 1,429 people in a poison-gas attack in the Damascus suburbs on 21 August. The UK says scientists at the Porton Down research laboratories have found traces of sarin gas on cloth and soil samples.
But Mr Assad has blamed rebels for the attack, and China and Russia have refused to agree to a Security Council resolution against Syria.
The US and France are the only nations at the G20 summit to commit to using force in Syria. China and Russia insist any action without the UN would be illegal.
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End times
September 6, 2013 at 8:20 am
End of the world
Kakanda Ndumbanjhi
September 6, 2013 at 12:20 pm
France and those supporting USA to ‘punish’ Syria with fire and brimstone are useful idiots! America only knows one solution to all who oppose it – BOOM THEM! So you boom other people, but where hast that gotten you, America? Malcom X was right: the shootings in America including in schools and colleges and the assassination of presidents there, is a matter of the chickens coming home to roost! They shoot each other as a national sport!So, shooting a few more people in Syria and Afghanistan and Iraq is quite up their street – a normal routine.Somehow the Americans have invented booms that will only kill Syrian solders and not touch what is left of the children that the rebels gassed!
Iam david A
September 6, 2013 at 1:26 pm
america neva ceases to amuse me