Joindelegation did storm out of Putin's speech. Meanwhile,Ukrainians held flag from bloody Ilovaisk battle. pic.twitter.com/AHID43mj5dMy response to Putin's speech and his effort to promote Assad as the solution. pic.twitter.com/cEPh22ZDV1 5.46pm BSTThe Guardian’s diplomatic correspondent Julian Borger has filed this analyses of Putin’s speech.
That was Putin at his most uncompromising on Syria. He portrayed Isis as a conspiracy, sent into Syria against the secular regime in Damascus. There was no talk approximately any transition in Damascus, or no admission even that the regime might require reform after Isis has been defeated (the line taken by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani).
Instead,he portrayed the Syrian army as fighting, “valiantly” and alone against terror in Syria. The question now is, and beneath the bluster,is there any room at all for convergence behind the scenes when Obama and Putin meet this evening in recent York. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com