Friday, January 06, 2012

Russia's 'democracy package' for Syria (Sami Moubayed- Asia Times)

DAMASCUS - The Russians have been talking a lot about a Yemeni solution for Syria, without going into too much detail. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov even said it publicly, twice, in less than a week, impressed by the win-win deal between Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his opponents.

Sources close to Moscow say that a "Russian Initiative" will be announced for Syria by late January, modeled after the Yemeni one.

The initiative, apparently, will be the brainchild of both the Americans and Russians, but it will be packaged and marketed as a Russian deal, from A to Z...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA07Ak03.html