I am the change that you seek...
warned Tuesday that Russia would be to blame for keeping aid from desperate Syrian civilians if it blocked a U.N. resolution designed to lift the siege of Homs.
Obama also heaped pressure on the Kremlin as U.S. concern grows about the pace of Syrian compliance with a deal to hand over its chemical weapons stocks for destruction.
Obama's tough line came with President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...'s government focused on the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but fighting its corner, and that of its ally Syria, at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
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He branded the Kremlin as a "holdout" against a Security Council resolution which would allow the delivery of food, shelter, medical aid and water to Homs and other cities where thousands of civilians are trapped by fighting.
"There is great unanimity among most of the Security Council on this resolution," Obama said.
He said Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
had told Russia that "they cannot say that they are concerned about the well-being of the Syrian people when they are starving civilians."
"It is not just the Syrians that are responsible, the Russians (are) as well if they are blocking this kind of resolution," Obama said at a White House presser with French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
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Western states want Russia to back a draft resolution which calls on all parties to "immediately end the sieges of the Old City of Homs" and other Syrian cities.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said though that the draft was "absolutely unacceptable," because it contained an ultimatum for the government of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
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"Instead of engaging in everyday, meticulous work to resolve problems that block deliveries of humanitarian aid, they see a new resolution as some kind of simplistic solution," he said.