Posted on 01/31/2012 10:51:18 AM PST by Nachum
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is a hard man to reach these days—especially if you’re Hillary Clinton.
The U.S. Secretary of State tried for twenty-four hours to get Mr. Lavrov on the phone to discuss a draft resolution on Syria, with no luck, according to the transcript of a State Department briefing.
Britain, France and the U.S. plan to make their strongest effort yet to push through a draft resolution calling for Syrian President Bashir Assad’s resignation. At least 5,400 people have been killed in the country’s 10-month long crackdown on protestors.
Mr. Lavrov, who was in Australia when Mrs. Clinton was trying to reach him, has a perfectly good explanation: He was too busy to take the call.
Mrs. Clinton’s phone call came “at the height of meetings with our Australian partners,” Russian news agencies quoted him as saying. “It is not in the Russian diplomatic tradition … to offend those with whom we have had long-scheduled meetings.”
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The list, Ping
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She needs to quit pressing the overloaded, I mean reset button.
...A function of how seriously the Russians take the hussein administration.
We used to talk about the 3am phone call. Whoever thought about the 3PM phone call? Thats the one WE make that gets sent straight to voicemail!
Putin has endorsed Zer0's reelection as Putin can transmit his orders via lower level foreign officers and only has to see Obama when he wants his shoes shined.
Good one.
I mean, would you want to talk to her?
Why don’t they send in Nancy Pelosi in to negotiate? After all, she had a very close relationship with Assad in Syria. Or was that only to embarrass the Republican president?
Contrary to the good press that Hillary Clinton gets, she is ineffective and little respected as Secretary of State.
HAHA, I love it.
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