G20 Syria divide

Written on September 7th, 2013 in politics Comments Off

The leaders of World’s largest nations speak out against US-led strike, on RT, Sept 6, 2013: As leaders of countries making up half of the world’s population firmly opposed military action against Syria without a UN mandate, the US kept pushing for a strike, claiming that many countries represented at the G20 summit were “comfortable” with it … (full text with short statement of each BRICS-leader, with photo * and graph **).  

* Group-Photo: President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Dilma Vana Rousseff, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Manmohan Singh, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping and President of the Republic of South Africa Jacob Zuma;

** Graph of States refusing US strike against Syria (they make MORE than 3/4 of humanity): The BRICS (Russia, China, India, Brazil, South Africa), plus Indonesia and Agentina;
‘confortable’ with US statement (they make LESS than a quarter of humanity): US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Jappan, Rep. South Korea and the 3 economicly important European countries: France, Italy, UK.

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