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He said relations with America depend on "principles of equal and mutually respectful partnership." He knows Washington doesn't respect these notions.
Meanwhile on July 20, the Security Council unanimously extended UNSMIS monitors another 30 days. Failure to agree would have ended their mandate at midnight EDT.
The measure says further extensions depend on future Secretary-General reports, whether the Security Council confirms no further heavy weapons use, and significantly less violence overall.
Britain proposed the resolution. It's offensive, one-sided, and resolves nothing. It's UN envoy and Washington's called it a "last chance" to keep observers on the ground.
Expect nothing positive between now and late August. Washington, key NATO partners, and regional allies won't allow it.
At the same time, Western efforts target credible reporting from Syria. SANA state media is repeatedly hacked. On July 20, its web site can't be accessed. On July 14, it headlined "SANA Website Attacked to Prevent it from Conveying Truth of Events in Syria," saying:
Foreign elements attack the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Doing so blocks credible news and information reporting.
"After the failure of several attempts to hack the website and publish fabricated news on it, foreign sides targeted the website with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack)."
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