Press TV
September 7, 2013
G20 wrong place for lobbying for US war
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US President Barack Obama was “desperately” lobbying for support during a G20 summit in Russia for a possible US attack on Syria, Rick Rozoff from Stop NATO said on Saturday.
However, the meeting was a wrong place for lobbying for a war, Rozoff said.
The G20 meeting was “bad form in two senses,” Rozoff told Press TV.
President Obama was using the occasion of a meeting of a major economic part of the world, which has already faced serious financial problems, to lobby for a war, he said.
In addition, Obama was lobbying on “the territory of Russia,” which opposes the US war plan against Syria, he added.
Rozoff said the United States appears to become more “desperate” and “isolated” in its war campaign against Syria.
World leaders meeting for the final day of the G20 summit in Russia remained divided over military action in Syria. A spokesman for the Russian presidency said a US military strike on the Arab country would “drive another nail into the coffin of international law.”
European foreign ministers on Saturday agreed that any strike on Syria should wait until after UN inspectors publish their report.
The UN’s chemical weapons experts could submit their initial findings by the end of next week, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
The United States claimed the Syrian government used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack against militants stationed in the suburbs of Damascus. Syrian authorities categorically rejected the claim.
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