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2004-09-07 Caucasus
No need for global help to end Chechnya conflict: Straw
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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-09-07 4:21:29 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Monday ruled out any UN or other international role in resolving the Chechen crisis, saying that it was up to Russia to find the right way of ending it.

The UN, however, reserves the right to tut-tut the Russians if these actions do not please them.
Posted by BH 2004-09-07 10:20:32 AM||   2004-09-07 10:20:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 it was up to Russia to find the right way of ending it.

Bush to Putin : Vlad, buddy. Wanna borrow a MOAB?
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-07 11:09:17 AM||   2004-09-07 11:09:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry Jack, but what's done is done, and resolving the Chechen "crisis" will do nothing to stop Chechen/Arab terrorism, unless Mr. Straw has something more violent in mind.
Posted by V is for Victory 2004-09-07 11:53:30 AM||   2004-09-07 11:53:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like water running, soap spewing, handwashing to me.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 1:29:25 PM||   2004-09-07 1:29:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Lead, follow or get out of the way. It sounds like Mr. Straw has chosen the third option, which puts him ahead of France and the EU, who would rather interfere than be helpful.
Posted by trailing wife 2004-09-07 1:56:59 PM||   2004-09-07 1:56:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I read it to mean that the UK has no particular interest in Russian internal affairs.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 5:46:53 PM||   2004-09-07 5:46:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I read it to mean that is ok for any country to fight terrorism in its own best way-except, of course, for America. This is not a slam on Jack Straw-it just seems that "American exceptionalism" has taken on a whole new meaning.

On another note, the West's earlier support of satellite states breaking off from the former Soviet Union makes this a tangled but interesting mess, doesn't it?
Posted by jules 187 2004-09-07 5:58:50 PM||   2004-09-07 5:58:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Not gonna argue too much with with Jules.
Let the KGB, be the KGB, has it has been forever and shall remain under a different name from time to time, amen.
Posted by Deion Shipman 2004-09-07 8:44:42 PM||   2004-09-07 8:44:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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