Russian news: Condoleezza visit as much to do with **IRAN** as North Korea

[Bluebear]

Quelle surprise.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice set out for an Asian tour including Japan, China, and South Korea. It is said the purpose of the visit is to strengthen pressure on North Korea. However, Korean issue is not the only point of the tour. It is not by accident that Moscow was included into the program at the last moment, on US initiative.

US Department of State named only Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul at first. Only on Monday morning did sources in Washington say that US side suggested holding urgent talks with Russia. Thus, Condoleezza Rice will meet with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov.

Rice confirmed the information right away: “I set off for Japan, China, South Korea, and Russia. In each of these countries, I will promote our diplomatic efforts to put into practice UN Security Council’s resolution #1718 about sanctions against North Korea, about opposing threats to peace and stability, and about hampering the ambitious aspirations of some states to develop massive destruction weapons.”

Rice’s talks to Moscow will be a big bargaining around UN Security Council’s resolution on Iran.Permanent representative of Russia in the UN Vitaly Churkin sharply criticized US sanctions against Rosoboronexport and Sukhoy companies. Churkin demanded that the U.S. lift the sanctions right away. He said Moscow’s stand on Iran directly depends on lifting sanctions against those Russian companies.

http://www.kommersant.com/p714050/r_527/Rice_Tour_Moscow/

[luckyleftyme2]

1. MORE STAY THE COURSE

Anything this administration does to contain anything is a joke. You could hear the fear in her voice the last time she spoke to the press about NORTH KOREA.
Stay the course and lose the country is their motto!