News:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is confident that a military strike against Assad's army may discard the prospect of an international conference on Syria far back. He said this on Wednesday, September 2.

"If the American president announced action, to the great regret of all of us, be still realized, regardless of the words that are said about the Geneva-2, this throw away the prospects of this forum far back if not forever",  he said at a press conference in Moscow.

However, according to the politician, finally, "in some other forms of political solution will still prevail".

"But we must understand that the longer we delay this, the longer the ones who somehow affects the opposition can not get it to agree to the conference, the more we see victims among the civilian population" Lavrov quoted by Interfax news agency.

Comment:

The prospect of convening the Geneva-2 has become a kind of pride of Russian diplomacy. Immediately after the May meeting of Lavrov and Kerry the Russian side hastened to declare the conduct of this conference even before the end of the month, then the dates were repeatedly postponed. And here, the Foreign Minister Lavrov was regretfully to tell that the Geneva-2 was not likely to take place.

The agreements of the United States and Russia end where Washington sees a threat to its own interests and in such a situation nothing remains for Moscow but to call once again for international law. The Russian Foreign Ministry is equal in hypocrisy to their U.S. "partners" and boldly emphasizes that in the case of a delaying of political solution the number of civilian victims will increase, as if it is not Moscow armed the butcher Bashar and not he killed the people of Syria with that weapon for more than two years.

Nevertheless there remains the main unifying factor in politics of Moscow and Washington in the region - a desire to protect the already dying system of government and prevent it from changing to Islamic. It's about establishing a possible Khilafah "Caliphate" about which Sergei Lavrov said at the press-conference in Moscow on 7 August. The United States, knowing that Assad's days are numbered and his successor has not still been found, pull together military forces closer to Syria and obviously not to fight against the regime of butcher Bashar al-Assad.

Suleyman Ibragimov