5 top news of RF MFA and State Department

Over the last week, even for five days between the RF Foreign Ministry and the US State Department is an active exchange of niceties.

I offer to your attention 5 top news from this sphere:

1.The rudest statement can be called words of «secretary” of the State Department, John Kirby on September 29 ‘big amount of Russian planes will be pulled down’, Russia will continue to send bodies of military in sacks to motherland and it will put out resources’, he even supposed ‘invasion at Russian cities’’.

After this demarche high sides tried to find a way out of the situation over 24 hours for, a telephone conversation was held between Kerry and Lavrov, during which the US Secretary of State had to blush for his subordinates once again.

2. And then The New York Times got a call record of Kerry and a number of representatives of the Syrian opposition. It is worth to notice that the conversation may have spilled the beans to the newspaper by representatives of “hawks” seeking to push Hillary Clinton to the presidency. Words of the head of the US State Department that “I got round by Russians” and “the US has no legal grounds to attack the Assad government, because while Russian forces are there at the invitation of the authorities” caused a storm in the US power circles.

In order to soften somehow the blow, one more “secretary” of foreign policy department appeared, Mark Toner, that said that they did not have enough time to fulfil all agreements. They have not been able to determine who are terrorist and who are not. It is even not funny, and all this leads to the next.

3. ‘The USA stopped diplomatic relationships with Russia on Syria’, such statement made Josh Ernest (I’ve been missing Psaki). ‘We regret that decision of Washington to recall the work of group of experts in Geneva, and to send experts to limit the scope of conflict prevention in view of the anti-terrorist operations in Syria and videoconferencing Action Coalition’, TASS presents comments of Zaharova on the air of program Time.

Zaharova commented this in the best way “Ultimately, it came down to a simple question: what is” Dzhebhat en-Nusra “that is behind it and why Washington can not fulfill the promise, namely to divide terrorists and the so-called moderate opposition. Throughout this time the Russian side proposed to ensure 72-hour pause and implement the agreement. Washington’s inaction led to the fact that the militants during this period regrouped, got guns, held the mobilization of their resources, “- Zaharova said.

4.There is an opinion that such reaction of the White House is the reaction at the order of the President of RF. Putin on stoppage of cooperation on plutonium. On the 3^rd October he issued a decree on stoppage actions of the agreement on excess arms-grade plutonium utilization. ‘This agreement was completed between Russian and the USA in 2000. Then the parties have committed themselves to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade radioactive material.

If to read the order attentively, you will see that it is rather a way to pressure the United States in matters not related to Syria (there are 3 demands there: termination of the US hostile policy toward Russia, the lifting of all sanctions and compensation for damage, limiting the development of the North Atlantic Alliance), United States will have to somehow get out of this situation when they just went without say something. The matter is…

5.Current Representative of the UN Vitaliy Churkin said at a press conference that Russia circulated a draft Security Council resolution on the fight against terrorism and violent ideology of extremism. Moreover, according to Churkin, the document has “a purely practical orientation”, spelled out measures to strengthening international cooperation in countering the terrorist ideology, “including exchange of information, assist in the investigation of crimes, connecting relevant international and regional organizations.”

Russia now holds the post of chairman of the UN Security Council, while for the nomination of such a resolution was chose in time. I am ready to argue that the USA will not admit this document. And it will show that they cannot hold a dialog, and that they support conservatory terrorists.

George Morozov, Editor in Chief of Novorossia Today

Translated by Nataliya Sinyavskaya