One -sided relationship

The leader of the democratic majority in the US Senate Harry Reid rejected the proposal to discuss the situation in Syria with members of the State Duma and the Council. It is reported by CNN with reference to the office of Reed. On Wednesday, the Russian Embassy in Washington sent a Congress to the official request for a meeting with Russian legislators. In addition, earlier the speaker of the Council of Valentina Matvienko made a similar proposal personally to Reed.

On the eve of the abandonment of negotiations with a delegation from Russia, the speaker of the House of Representatives John Beiner announced.

The press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington Maxim Abramov refused to comment on Reed's response to the channel. “We are still working on the preparation of the visit,” he said.

Meanwhile, according to ITAR-TASS, Democrat Gregory Mix, deputy of the House of Representatives from New York, announced his readiness to meet with members of the Russian delegation and discuss any issues with them, including Syrian. In this sense, a member of the lower house from Texas Sheila Jackson-Lee, also representing a democratic party, also spoke out. “I have to travel around the world and talk with parliamentarians (from other countries. - Ed.), And we are always open to communicate with them,” the agency reports the deputy.

At the same time, the press secretary of the US State Department Jen Psaki, commenting on the recent statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accused John Kerry's Secretary of State of the United States of Lie, named the Russian leader is non-nylon. According to her, this replica was based on inaccurate quote. Psaki added that Kerry is a “honored combat veteran”, which was not addressed to such accusations, so Putin’s statement “did not deprive him of sleep”.

Meanwhile, The New York Times, citing a source in the White House, reports that US President Barack Obama ordered the Pentagon to increase the number of goals to strike American and French forces on the territory of Syria. The initial list of goals compiled by the French military includes 50 objects.

The goals of the coalition may be military units, responsible, according to Western intelligence, for chemical attacks, as well as the headquarters that these attacks planned, and artillery and missile batteries that directly inflicted strikes. According to the head of the United Committee of the chiefs of staff of Martin Dampsis, the targets of the air defense, regarded as a means of protecting chemical weapons, may also include.

Meanwhile, it is not supposed to be applied in order to avoid unpredictable consequences in the actual impact warehouses with chemical weapons.

Obama also first raised the question of the participation of American and French aircraft in the planned operation. Earlier, it was about the fact that Syria would be bombarded with cruise missiles from the US warships in the Mediterranean Sea.

Now Obama is located in St. Petersburg at the Summit of the Big Twenth countries. According to RIA Novosti, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, the opinions of the leaders of the G20 countries on the issue of operation in Syria were divided approximately equally. "A number of states defended the point of view on the need to take hasty measures, despite any legitimate international bodies. A whole number of other states called not to devalue international law and not to forget that only the UN Security Council has the right to make a decision on the application of force," Peskov said.