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John Kerry urges world leaders to 'speak out' on Syria's chemical weapons ahead of UN meeting [2013]
ABC Online ^ | September 19, 2013 | ABC/AFP

Posted on 04/06/2017 2:06:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

United States secretary of state John Kerry has mocked the notion that Syrian rebels were responsible for last month's chemical weapons attack near Damascus.

He has called on all United Nations member nations to "stand up and speak out" on Syria's chemical weapons at the upcoming General Assembly.

"The world can decide whether it was used by the regime which has used chemical weapons before, or whether the opposition secretly went unnoticed into territory they don't control, to fire rockets that they don't have, containing Sarin that they don't possess, to kill their own people," he said.

"I would say to the community of nations, time is short. Let's not spend time debating what we already know," Mr Kerry said.

"We have to recognize that the world is watching to see whether we can avert military action and achieve through peaceful means" the destruction of Syria's chemical arms stocks, he said.

"We really don't have time today to pretend that anyone can have their own set of facts, approaching the issue of chemical weapons in Syria," Mr Kerry said.

"This fight about Syria's chemical weapons is not a game."

Under a deal drawn up with the Russians in non-stop talks late last week in Geneva, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is to make a full declaration of his chemical weapons stockpile by this weekend.

The aim is to turn the weapons over to international control with the goal of destroying them by mid-2014.

"We need everyone's help in order to see that the Security Council lives up to its founding values and passes a binding resolution that codifies the strongest possible mechanism to achieve the goal and achieve it rapidly," Mr Kerry said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; failure; hanoijohn; johnkerry; kerry; obama; secstate; tehranjohn; traitor
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1 posted on 04/06/2017 2:06:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shut up Kerry, you are not SOS anymore, you’ve done your damage


2 posted on 04/06/2017 2:08:36 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

el douchebag speaks


3 posted on 04/06/2017 2:09:09 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s too stupid to do anything useful at all.


4 posted on 04/06/2017 2:09:30 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Speak out! Sat, "This is delicious Burgundy, Bashar."

5 posted on 04/06/2017 2:11:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: McGavin999

This article is 3 1/2 years old.


6 posted on 04/06/2017 2:13:07 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was a false-flag operation then — and so was the most recent atrocity. (IMHO, of course.)


7 posted on 04/06/2017 2:13:51 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: nickcarraway

Live Shot is back.


8 posted on 04/06/2017 2:14:09 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

didn’t kerry say that assad turned over his chemical weapons.

i pray for trump to see the truth


9 posted on 04/06/2017 2:14:43 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

John Who?


10 posted on 04/06/2017 2:15:24 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, well if John Kerry mocks the idea, then we don’t need to investigate. Facts don’t matter only agenda matters.


11 posted on 04/06/2017 2:15:34 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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OMG sorry


12 posted on 04/06/2017 2:20:23 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: House Atreides

OMG sorry


13 posted on 04/06/2017 2:20:23 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TRUMP come on WAKE UP


14 posted on 04/06/2017 2:21:22 PM PDT by Ulysse
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Ha ha! I bet he’s in his bath robe and has cats too. Someone remind him that he’s un-employed.


15 posted on 04/06/2017 2:39:46 PM PDT by ssfromla (Free)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

John, take a half cup of Heinz Ketchup and a half cup of mayonaise and go make some Russian Dressing. Nobody cares what you say or do,


16 posted on 04/06/2017 3:08:35 PM PDT by kempster
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Let’s be sure that the attack was not a false flag by the ISIS terrorists before we take any action. It seems to offer Assad no upside, so why would he do it?


17 posted on 04/06/2017 3:13:10 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Michael Medved was sure ridiculing anyone who would suggest Assad is not behind the chemical attack today.


18 posted on 04/06/2017 3:18:34 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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Is he still alive?


19 posted on 04/06/2017 3:57:35 PM PDT by Huebolt (The FBI used to be the untouchables.ous.)
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Let’s be sure that the attack was not a false flag by the ISIS terrorists before we take any action. It seems to offer Assad no upside, so why would he do it?

BRAVO


20 posted on 04/06/2017 3:59:31 PM PDT by Huebolt (The FBI used to be the untouchables.ous.)
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