Russian minister skewers US over crisis in Syria
rov invoked George Orwell and his anti-utopian “Animal Farm” novel “where all animals are equal, but some are more equal.” He accused the West of promoting their own interests to the detriment of others, through “mentoring, supremacy (and) exclusiveness.”
Their “arrogant attitude and feeling of their infallibility in pushing forward unilateral hazardous solutions to the most complex conflicts and crises can be observed by the example of bleeding Middle East and North Africa,” he said. “As a result, the basis of world stability is being destroyed.”
Lavrov’s comments reflected the latest spike in tensions between Moscow and Washington, with both sides
UNITED NATIONS — With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry invoking North Korea’s latest nuclear explosion as a “reckless act of provocation,” the U.N. Security Council on Friday approved a resolution urging quick global implementation of a treaty that would ban tests of such weapons.
Kerry said universal adoption of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty would result in a “safer, more secure, and more peaceful planet,” as the United States and 18 other council members approved the resolution, with none opposed and Egypt abstaining.
Security Council approval comes as the Comprehensive Test Ban Organization set up to administer the treaty marks its 20th anniversary. CTBO chief Lassina Zerbo welcomed the vote, telling The Associated Press that “it will remind the international community … that we have to finish what we started 20 years ago.” blaming each other for the collapse of the latest efforts to find a peace formula for Syria.
“We can’t go out to the world and say we have an agreement when we don’t,” Secretary of State John Kerry said after meeting the top diplomats from Russia and more than a dozen European and Middle Eastern countries and amid increasing Syrian fighting.
Syrian President Bashar Assad blamed the United States for the deal’s failure in an AP interview earlier this week.