"... Jeff Feltman was in Moscow as part of an increasingly frantic international effort to intervene in the troubled Middle Eastern country, American officials said.
"Issue number one on [Feltman's] agenda there is Syria and our interest in being able to move forward in the UN Security Council and talking about how the situation looks after the Arab League report over the weekend," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists at a press briefing Monday....
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was also due to fly to Moscow Wednesday to urge Russia not to veto a UN Security Council Syria resolution, Turkey's Today Zaman reported Mahir Zeynalov reported.
American officials are also expected to ask Moscow about media reports that it has inked a deal to sell combat jets to the Assad regime, the State Department said..."
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
For Syria, Jeffrey Feltman & Erdogan fly to Moscow
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Erdogan made himself look so small... I think even Feltman has more worth than him now.
It was a big flop and Feltman as usual lied about the outcome of his discussions. Lavrov's statement afterwards amounted to a slap in Feltman's face as well as i Hamad's and Faisal's. US policy is in total shambles over Syria.
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