That is because the Russian bear remains the same.
Posted on 06/30/2005 6:41:01 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
SANAA, June 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Yemen are both champions of a multipolar world order, where the central role in regulating international relations would belong to the United Nations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told a Moscow news conference Wednesday.
Yakovenko told journalists about Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, where he attended the 32nd conference of the foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states. Russia has observer status in the OIC.
While he was in Sanaa, the minister had talks with his Yemeni counterpart, Abu Bakr al-Qurbi, as well as with President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Prime Minister Abdel Qader Bajammal, Yakovenko reported. He said the sides had condemned terrorism, in whatever form, and reiterated their commitment to playing a proactive role in global anti-terror efforts.
When discussing developments in the Middle East, Lavrov and the high-ranking Yemeni officials stressed the need to implement the road map peace plan, and, specifically, to create conditions for Israel's planned withdrawal of its settlements from the Gaza Strip and northern areas of the West Bank, Yakovenko said.
"This should be followed up by a full-blooded resumption of the political process on the basis of the road map, leading to final-status negotiations and the creation of an independent, viable Palestine, co-existing with Israel in peace," the spokesman said.
The sides also called for reinvigorated efforts to settle the crisis in Iraq and to restore stability in the country as soon as possible, Yakovenko said. He said they had underlined the importance of the international community's efforts to help Iraq meet the challenges of the transitional period and expressed their support for an appeal to the interim Iraqi government to promote national reconciliation through broad dialogue between the country's different ethnic and religious communities.
"Russia is ready to cooperate with the OIC on the reform of the UN," Lavrov said at the session. Russian politicians had previously said on many occasions that they were ready to support the candidacy of Egypt in the event that the UN Security Council was expanded. Meanwhile, cooperation between the OIC, Russia and other non-Muslim states is raising the prestige of the organization, at least in the eyes of its member states. In any case, both Moscow and the Muslim world say that dialogue is necessary.
Well, Yemen has spoken.
I'm convinced.
(take notice: pink flying pigs sighted overhead)
I remember a cartoon, published after WW II, about the world's nations giving up their natural powers to form the UN. The caption was something to the effect that the Russian bear kept his "hug." Beware of making deals with the Russians.
It is a comedy Russia claiming this and claiming war against terrorism while they are supporting Syria and especially Iran for the nuclear facilities.
That is because the Russian bear remains the same.
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