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September 28th, 2015 
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nsnbc : U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a one-hour meeting after their speeches at the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City. Yesterday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in New York with Syria and anti-terrorism on their agenda.
The last time Obama and Putin met was on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland in June 2013.
Russian – US Relations have deteriorated rapidly since then, with points of contention being the situation in Syria, the situation in Ukraine and the stationing of updated U.S. nuclear weapons in Germany.
Yesterday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in New York in preparation of the Obama – Putin meeting.
The United States has recently exchanged its “Assad must go” posture with a posture that gives the Syrian President an important role in finding a political solution to the protracted war in Syria.
On September 15 the Russian UN Envoy Vitaly Churkin told the press that neither Russia nor the United States want Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to fall. Churkin said:
“I think this is one thing we share now with the United States, with the US government: They do not want the Assad government to fall. They do not want it to fall. They want to fight (Islamic State a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) in a way which is not going to harm the Syrian government. … On the other hand, they do not want the Syrian government to take advantage of their campaign against (IS). But they do not want to harm the Syrian government by their action. This is very complex,”
The change in the United States’ posture came after Russia sent reinforcements of Russian troops to its naval base in Tartous and signaled that Russia was prepared to deploy Russian troops to Syria, should Damascus ask for military assistance.
Russia has also upgraded its support of Damascus with arms and Moscow is currently engaged in the process of lobbying for a Russian-led alliance against terrorism in the region. Moscow criticized the U.S.-led alliance against ISIS as ineffective and blamed Washington for double standards.
The United States, for its part, continues to argue for U.S. and western support of what it describes as “moderate rebels” and insists that it was the United States’ support of moderate rebels that brought the Syrian government into a position where it was willing to negotiate a political settlement.
This U.S. position is generally contradicted by the evidence about the genesis of the war in Syria. Notably, the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas expressed that top-British officials were planning the subversion of the Syrian government with “rebels” years before the first protests and the eruption of armed conflict in 2011.
Putin will also meet Iranian President Rouhani, Cuban President Raul Castro, UN Secretary-General Ban Kyi-moon, and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. The meeting between Abe and Putin is likely to focus on the two countries dispute over the Russian occupied northern Japanese territories, a.k.a. the South Kuril Islands by Russians.
CH/L – nsnbc 18.09.2015
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