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Russia wants political processes in S. Ossetia to continue within realm of law - Foreign Ministry (Part 2)
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Russia wants political processes in S. Ossetia to continue within realm of law - Foreign Ministry (Part 2)http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=291086 MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax) - Moscow wants all political processes in South Ossetia to continue within the realm of law. "Moscow has been closely following the situation in the friendly neighboring state [following the run-off elections] and wants the situation in this young republic to remain peaceful and stable, and political processes to continue exclusively within the realm of law," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. "If this is to happen, all political forces must respect the decisions made by the supreme bodies of authority in compliance with the law," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Run-off elections were held in South Ossetia on November 27. After hearing a complaint against serious abuses committed by supporters of one of the presidential candidates, South Ossetia's Supreme Court declared the elections invalid. The parliament called repeat elections which will take place on March 25, 2012, it said. sd jv (Our editorial staff can be reached at eng.editors@interfax.ru) 12:04 30/11/2011ALL NEWS
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/285141.html MOSCOW, November 30 (Itar-Tass) — Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council Vladimir Nazarov said Russia has concrete proofs that the USA was involved in the murder of Russian peacekeepers, servicemen and citizens in South Ossetia. Nazarov said so at the international conference in Moscow on Euroatlantic security architecture on Wednesday. "The USA was directly involved in the murder of Russian peacekeepers, servicemen and citizens in South Ossetia," Nazarov stressed, "we have concrete proofs." "We'd like to remind our NATO partners about the role the alliance played in arming the Saakashvili regime, pushing it towards that war, and dragging Georgia in NATO in 2007 in 2008 ," the deputy Security Council secretary underlined. McFaul confirmed as Russia ambassadorhttp://english.ruvr.ru/2011/11/30/61240747.html Nov 30, 2011 11:56 Moscow Time The Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee has confirmed Michael McFaul as the US Ambassador to Russia. Reports that McFaul would succeed John Beyrle as Russia ambassador were published in May. President Obama made an official statement to this effect in September. Prior to his appointment, McFaul worked for the US National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs. Mayak
Just in case? Russian fleet to reach Syria in Decemberhttp://rt.com/news/russian-fleet-syrian-port-513/ Published: 30 November, 2011, 01:09 Edited: 30 November, 2011, 02:04 Speculation is growing whether Russian war ships heading to the Mediterranean will indeed anchor by the Syrian coast. And, despite military officials’ assurances, some expect it to disturb the balance of power in the region. Conflicting reports are coming from the Russian military on whether the Russian battle group of three vessels led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier will in fact visit the Syrian port of Tartus. The long-planned mission will begin on December 10 and one source in the Russian Defense Ministry has told Itar-Tass news agency that the ships will arrive at the port by the end of December. Meanwhile, other military sources told Ria Novosti news agency that the group will only carry out drill in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic without entering Tartus and, in any case, the Admiral Kuznetsov is too large to be able to dock there. The naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus is operated by the Russian military under an agreement signed in 1971 between Syria and the Soviet Union. Nikolay Makarov of the Russian Army General Staff said that the decision to send a group of Russian Navy warships to the Mediterranean Sea was due to “obligations before its Western colleagues” and the exercises were planned long before the tensions in Syria became so high. When asked whether the squadron of ships will approach the Syrian coast, Makarov evaded the question, saying that the Russian Navy has "a planned number of exercises which have nothing to do with Syria." The minister plenipotentiary at the Syrian embassy to Russia, Suleiman Abudiab, has also said that “one should not link the Russian warships' plans to call at Tartus with the current situation in Syria,” as cited by Interfax news agency. He added, however, that Russia is a friend of Syria and its ships can visit Syrian ports any time “for repair and other reasons.” Both Russian and Syrian officials are stressing that all drills and flights are planned to be performed in open waters, away from the Syrian coast. Nevertheless, with the international pressure on Syria growing and the US 6th Fleet patrolling the area at the moment, a neutral force not far from the troubled country’s coast might calm some nerves. There’s no speech about preventing a direct military intervention in Syria with the assistance of Russia’s or anyone else’s forces, Suleiman Abudiab stressed. “I think clever people understand that no one needs to light a fire in the Middle East," he pointed out. General: Russia to send northern fleet warships to Syriahttp://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1677904.php/General-Russia-to-send-northern-fleet-warships-to-Syria Nov 29, 2011, 19:29 GMT Moscow - Russia will send warships from its Arctic Sea fleet for naval manoeuvres off the coast of Syria, a senior general told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday. 'This is regularly scheduled training,' said Nikolai Makarov, head of the Russian general staff. 'We are not sending the ships directly to Syria per se.' The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will be the centre of a battle group scheduled to depart Russian Artic Ocean ports in December for the eastern Mediterranean, he said. The crew of the Kuznetsov and other ships in the support flotilla spent much of November in local manoeuvres including practice air strikes, live missile launches and navigation, ahead of the voyage, the report said. The flotilla's sailors will make a port call in the Syrian city of Tartus, Interfax said. Moscow reportedly began renovations of naval installations in the port in 2009. Russia's Izvestiya newspaper, which historically has had close links to the Kremlin, wrote Tuesday, 'The military says that the transfer of the Kuznetsov to Syria is not in any way connected with the military-strategic situation in the region. But experts are sure that the Russian warships will prevent military conflict.' Senior Russian officials have repeatedly spoken out against calls by western nations for an international military intervention against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Russia will not allow an international coalition to force a regime change in Syria, as was recently the case in Libya, they have said.
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