The US has made it clear it will not carry out it's threat against Russia to break off diplomacy

[tyroneweaver]

geeze louise.

Russia said to send more warplanes to Syria, diplomacy 'on life support'

The United States made clear on Friday that it would not, at least for now, carry through on the threat it made on Wednesday to halt the diplomacy if Russia did not take immediate steps to halt the violence.

 

[Stratford57]

Meanwhile, several hours ago:

· Lavrov’s Interview to BBC

The US is keeping jihadist group al-Nusra for a “Plan B”, potentially to overthrow Syrian President Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the BBC.

Speaking to the British outlet about increased violence in Syria, including in Aleppo, Lavrov said that Washington has still not delivered on its promise to persuade US-backed rebels to separate from Jabhat al-Nusra jihadists.

The separation of so-called “moderate” anti-government fighters from terrorist groups is one of the cornerstones of the Russia-US brokered peace deal for Syria.

Lavrov’s statement came on the first anniversary of the Russian anti-ISIS air campaign at the request of President Assad. On September 25 the US envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, called Russia’s actions in Syria “barbarism,” with Lavrov saying such rhetoric is“unacceptable.” When questioned about alleged civilian casualties caused by Russian strikes in Aleppo, Lavrov said that there was “no meaningful proof.”

"We are not using any munition which is prohibited by the United Nations," he added.

Instead Lavrov noted that the West including the US is remaining silent over terrorist re-supplies in the city during the humanitarian pauses agreed between Moscow and Washington."Every time these pauses have been used by Nusra to get from abroad more fighters, more ammunition and more weapons,”the official said.

Lavrov countered that it’s the militants “controlled by al-Nusra” who jeopardize peace efforts. The terrorists are “shielding themselves with other armed groups” in order not to be attacked, Lavrov noted, stressing that Washington needs to do more to persuade moderate forces to dodge any cooperation with Jihadists.

While speaking with Lavrov the BBC claimed that there is “evidence”proving that the attack involved the Russian military. The official countered that he “would like to see that evidence,” adding that one should wait for the results of the investigation launched by the UN.

US ‘spare Nusra for plan B’ to change regime in Syria – Lavrov

Russia's Sergei Lavrov: BBC interview in full - BBC News

 

[The Irish Ram]

avrov’s statement came on the first anniversary of the Russian anti-ISIS air campaign at the request of President Assad. O

Read that sentence carefully. And understand something. On one team we have Russia and Assad. On the other team we have ISIS, and Obama. Do you get what team we are on? Do you get that is why they all drive Humvees and Fords and never run out of weapons and ammo?
Obama is importing them here. Hillary plans to import them here faster.
And now that control of the internet has been handed over, what we are told and what is actually true will be up to some one in Belgium, that hates our guts.
The destruction done to this country and globally will be permanent.
What a shame.