Why does Russia still have people working inside their embassy in IRAQ

[dahunan]

If Saddam is still alive he is housed inside the Russian Embassy - Guaranteed

Russia Protests U.S. Strikes Near Its Iraq Embassy
Wed April 2, 2003 03:43 PM ET
By Clara Ferreira-Marques
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia called in the U.S. ambassador to Moscow on Wednesday to protest against air strikes it said hit Baghdad's residential districts and endangered the lives of diplomats still working at its embassy in Iraq.

Russian President Vladimir Putin rammed home Moscow's sharp criticism of the Iraq campaign, saying deaths in the campaign justified its position. But he said it was not to Moscow's advantage to see a U.S. defeat and repeated his call for the matter to be placed again before the United Nations.

Russia's high-level diplomatic protest dealt a fresh blow to strained ties between the Cold War-era rivals hours ahead of their first face-to-face meeting since the U.S.-led drive to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began two weeks ago.

Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov meets Secretary of State Colin Powell in Brussels on Thursday for talks requested by Putin and President Bush.

Ivanov then flies to Paris for a Friday meeting with his French and German counterparts. France and Germany, like Russia, have opposed the U.S.-led invasion.

In a toughly worded statement, Moscow said air strikes on Wednesday had hit the Baghdad district in which its embassy was located.

"The Russian side demanded that American authorities take urgent and exhaustive measures to prevent such dangerous and unacceptable incidents in the future," the Foreign Ministry said after U.S. envoy Alexander Vershbow had been summoned.

"The safety of personnel of the Russian diplomatic representation was in immediate danger."

Russia, which has long had close economic ties with Iraq, is among the few countries not to have evacuated embassies. Twenty-six staff remain, according to Russian news agencies.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2497056

 

[Tab]

On my local news channel several days before the war started I heard all of the diplomats where leaving.

 

[Nitemare]

Where else do you think Iraq is going to find cheap military supplies?

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Where else do you think Iraq is going to find cheap military supplies?

I have heard that there are Russian advisors on the ground assisting the Iraqi's. This was mentioned on some Russian website that someone posted a link to.

 

[Alistar7]

Iraq gave France and russia about 2 billion each in the food for oil program, from 1996-2000, from 2000-2002 the bulk of the Saddam controlled money wentr to Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, tried to buy a few local allies in the end. Does this answer those questions about why Syria would act in their behalf? Interestingly enough the BILLIONS of dollars in the account are earning some cash for a French Bank.....hhhmmm

 

[wetcat007]

Well if we're going to have to attack russia for supplying iraq or something, I call the first flight off earth...

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: dahunan
If Saddam is still alive he is housed inside the Russian Embassy - Guaranteed

Russia Protests U.S. Strikes Near Its Iraq Embassy
Wed April 2, 2003 03:43 PM ET
By Clara Ferreira-Marques
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia called in the U.S. ambassador to Moscow on Wednesday to protest against air strikes it said hit Baghdad's residential districts and endangered the lives of diplomats still working at its embassy in Iraq.

Russian President Vladimir Putin rammed home Moscow's sharp criticism of the Iraq campaign, saying deaths in the campaign justified its position. But he said it was not to Moscow's advantage to see a U.S. defeat and repeated his call for the matter to be placed again before the United Nations.

Russia's high-level diplomatic protest dealt a fresh blow to strained ties between the Cold War-era rivals hours ahead of their first face-to-face meeting since the U.S.-led drive to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began two weeks ago.

Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov meets Secretary of State Colin Powell in Brussels on Thursday for talks requested by Putin and President Bush.

Ivanov then flies to Paris for a Friday meeting with his French and German counterparts. France and Germany, like Russia, have opposed the U.S.-led invasion.

In a toughly worded statement, Moscow said air strikes on Wednesday had hit the Baghdad district in which its embassy was located.

"The Russian side demanded that American authorities take urgent and exhaustive measures to prevent such dangerous and unacceptable incidents in the future," the Foreign Ministry said after U.S. envoy Alexander Vershbow had been summoned.

"The safety of personnel of the Russian diplomatic representation was in immediate danger."

Russia, which has long had close economic ties with Iraq, is among the few countries not to have evacuated embassies. Twenty-six staff remain, according to Russian news agencies.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2497056

What would the US be doing if the roles were reverse, Russia were the invader and the US were opposed to the invasion?

 

[UltraQuiet]

They should ask the Chinese what happens to embassies that are in places we are bombing.

"Oh we're so sorry. Someone must have been using an old map."