Russia Is Accusing 3 Western Powers Of Politicizing The Humanitarian Crisis In Syria And Warns...

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Russia Is Accusing 3 Western Powers Of Politicizing The Humanitarian Crisis In Syria And Warns The Tactic Risks Derailing Upcoming Peace Talks

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia dismissed a Security Council meeting Friday on the siege of Syrian towns as "unnecessary noise" that politicizes a humanitarian crisis and risks derailing upcoming peace talks.

Russian Deputy Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov questioned the motives of Britain, France and the U.S. in calling for the meeting. He accused them of "double standards" by focusing on the suffering in Madaya, a rebel-held town besieged by Syria's government, while minimizing suffering in towns under siege by rebels.

Safronkov said the insistence on holding the Security Council debate "gives the impression" that "attempts are being made to undermine the launch of the inter-Syrian dialogue scheduled for Jan. 25" in Geneva.

"As the date for the launch draws closer there is all this unnecessary noise," Safronkov said.

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[newthinking]

1. This is the truth. The poor people in Madaya are being used as political narrative

The Jihadis have left the people there starve and this is happening in many of the Jihadi regions.

The "reports" of "civilian targeting" are also war narrative.

When it comes to war reporting our media is incredibly "narratized" (propagandized). It is eye opening once one gets past it. Three years ago I would not have thought it possible that is could be so well coordinated war &quot mis)information" in the MSM.

[karynnj]

5. if they really thought it was all PR they could have

Pushed Assad to be part of the help for the town. Neither side is without blame in Syria and that includes the regime and Russia.

[bemildred]

10. They should all take a good look at what they've done to Yemen too. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Britain, France, US.

[cheapdate]

3. The one article I read about the sieges

was from BBC. It did focus on the siege by government forces, but it explicitly said that all side were guilty of conducting sieges.

[MeNMyVolt]

6. Three of you in the first 5 posts.

Kinda chompin at the bit, no?

[newthinking]

7. The dishonesty in our MSM war reporting is dramatic so people react.

It would be great to see an outlet start calling it out but that just does not happen.

When our media plays games with war reporting the consequences are severe.

www.projectcensored.org

[MeNMyVolt]

8. Oookay. Good luck to you.

[jamzrockz]

9. The point of a seige

is to starve the fighters in the area of resources so they surrender. If I was negotiating for the Syrians, instead of food, I would offer safe passage for civilians out of town. Everybody else surrenders or starves to death. Its their choice and they can cry all they want but no food or medicine for these terrorists and their families.

All this is an effort by the enemies of Syria to keep the war going which would lead to even more death and destruction.