UK PM to focus on Syria at G20 in Russia
5 Sept 2013 4:52 AM IST
Syria will dominate the bilateral agenda between Britain and other countries attending the G20 summit in Russia later this week.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to push Russia and others to back a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict as well as a tougher UN response at the St Petersburg summit scheduled for Thursday and Friday.
‘It is in bilateral meetings that Syria will be a dominant issue in St Petersburg and should be. The Prime Minister will of course be pursuing it... through every channel in St Petersburg, as he has done and I have done in a whole series of bilateral and multilateral meetings over the last few months,’
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons here on Tuesday. ‘Our problem is not being unable to discuss these things in the international community
it is being unable to agree how we bring about a transitional government in Syria, formed from government and opposition by mutual consent.
There is no shortage of venues for discussing those things, platforms for discussing those things we have had two and a half years of discussion on this. It is agreement that is elusive, not a forum for discussion,’ he added.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to push Russia and others to back a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict as well as a tougher UN response at the St Petersburg summit scheduled for Thursday and Friday.
‘It is in bilateral meetings that Syria will be a dominant issue in St Petersburg and should be. The Prime Minister will of course be pursuing it... through every channel in St Petersburg, as he has done and I have done in a whole series of bilateral and multilateral meetings over the last few months,’
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons here on Tuesday. ‘Our problem is not being unable to discuss these things in the international community
it is being unable to agree how we bring about a transitional government in Syria, formed from government and opposition by mutual consent.
There is no shortage of venues for discussing those things, platforms for discussing those things we have had two and a half years of discussion on this. It is agreement that is elusive, not a forum for discussion,’ he added.
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