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Putin vows support for peace plan
July 18, 2012, Wednesday
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed to "do everything" to support Kofi Annan's tattered peace plan for Syria when he met the envoy in Moscow.
"From the very start, from the first steps, we supported and continue to support your efforts aimed at restoring civil peace," Putin told Annan at the start of their Kremlin meeting.
"We will do everything that depends on us to support your efforts."
The UN-Arab League mediator replied that "the Syrian crisis is at a critical time" before the discussion was closed to the press.
Annan's first meeting with Putin since his May return to the Kremlin came one day before Western powers plan to hold a vote on a UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Damascus.
Russia has vowed to block the measure in the same manner that it has two previous resolutions that threatened any penalties against Syria for violence that activists believe has now claimed more than 17,000 lives.
Moscow has proposed its own draft that would extend a UN monitors mission whose mandate expires on Friday for another three months without penalizing President Bashar Assad should he fail to pull heavy weapons out of cities.
"From the very start, from the first steps, we supported and continue to support your efforts aimed at restoring civil peace," Putin told Annan at the start of their Kremlin meeting.
"We will do everything that depends on us to support your efforts."
The UN-Arab League mediator replied that "the Syrian crisis is at a critical time" before the discussion was closed to the press.
Annan's first meeting with Putin since his May return to the Kremlin came one day before Western powers plan to hold a vote on a UN Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions against Damascus.
Russia has vowed to block the measure in the same manner that it has two previous resolutions that threatened any penalties against Syria for violence that activists believe has now claimed more than 17,000 lives.
Moscow has proposed its own draft that would extend a UN monitors mission whose mandate expires on Friday for another three months without penalizing President Bashar Assad should he fail to pull heavy weapons out of cities.
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