The first, learnt before the United States bombing, was that dictators such as Syrian President Bashar Assad will take advantage of what they perceive as weakness, with little concern for the consequences to Mr Trump.
Winston Churchill is often credited with the line that the USA always does the right thing once it's exhausted all the alternatives. It was stark evidence that the president is moving ever further from his campaign promises to establish better ties with Moscow.
At one point, Lavrov also pushed back at the USA intelligence community, which has reason to believe that Russian Federation interfered in US elections.
Candidate Trump famously took a hard line on China and trade, while simultaneously signalling that he did not much care about China's geostrategic expansion and conflict with other Pacific powers, including the US.
"That could happen, and it may not happen, " he said.
The measure would also had called on the Syrian government to comply with relevant recommendations of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon's (OPCW) Fact Finding Mission (FFM) and the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM).Before the vote, Russia's deputy UN envoy Vladimir Safronkov said in the course of negotiations between his country's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Moscow had suggested a joint communication asking the OPCW Director-General to immediately put together an global mission to visit Khan Shaykhun and the Shayrat air base.
Russian Federation has slammed Washington's attack on a Syrian airbase and, as the top diplomats met, Putin admitted that relations between Washington and Moscow have worsened in the three months that Trump has been in office. Trump said it was "certainly possible" though "probably unlikely".
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Tillerson's visit comes as the United States and her allies attempt to forge a united front that will put pressure on Moscow to disown its ally Assad.
This was the 8th time during Syria's six-year-old civil war that Moscow used its veto power to block a resolution against Assad's government.
The U.S. has blamed the Syrian government for launching a deadly chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun that killed over 80 people on April 4, and responded by striking a Syrian air base. The U.S. issued advance notice to Russian Federation to avoid hitting its personnel before unleashing a volley of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from U.S. warships in the Mediterranean.
"We have submitted a new draft", the mission official stated.
Though Trump had indicated a desire to avoid any involvement in Syria, he quickly reversed his stand following meetings with King Abdallah and after seeing photos of Syrian children killed by the chemical attack.
Rycroft said Russian Federation has a choice of sticking with "the toxic Assad regime that poisons its own people" or seeking peace through negotiations and a political transition.
Tillerson, however, used his opening remarks to portray a more diplomatic tone in which he called the talks "an important moment in the United States' relationship with Russian Federation". "In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington", Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia's state-owned RIA news agency. "No one showed us anything, no one said anything, although we repeatedly asked to produce the details on which these unfounded accusations lie".
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