RUSSIA: UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA JOINED ORTHODOX BELIEVERS TO PRAY FOR THOSE KILLED IN SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS ON THE UNITED STATES

Record ID: 338294

  • Title: RUSSIA: UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA JOINED ORTHODOX BELIEVERS TO PRAY FOR THOSE KILLED IN SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS ON THE UNITED STATES
  • Date: 13th September 2002
  • Summary: (U6) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 11, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV WORSHIP SERVICE; MV YOUNG GIRLS WITH FLOWERS; MV NUNS WITH CANDLES; MV PRIESTS WITH AMERICAN MILITARY OFFICERS; SCU CANDLES (6 SHOTS) 0.36 2. MV UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR ANDREW VERSHBOW LAYING WREATH AT MONUMENT TO VICTIMS OF BOMB BLAST; SLV PEOPLE WATCHING (3 SHOTS) 1.02 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA, ALEXANDER VERSHBOW, SAYING "We recognise that Russia itself has been the target of terrorism and that is why I am here today because we want to underscore the real solidarity between our two nations in trying to defeat the enemy of terrorism." 1.18 4. MV WOMAN WATCHING 1.21 5. SCU WREATH OF RED WHITE AND BLUE FLOWERS 1.29 6. SLV PAN MEMORIAL SERVICE IN PROGRESS; SV VERSHBOW WITH HEAD BOWED (2 SHOTS) 1.54 7. SCU CHOIR MEMBERS PAN MAN SINGING (RUSSIAN); SLV/SCU AUDIENCE (3 SHOTS) 2.45 8. SLV CHOIR SINGINGZOOM OUT 3.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th September 2002 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA4EA5I6KJABY7FI35UDG3GHV02
  • Story Text: The United States ambassador to Russia joined Orthodox
    believers in Moscow to pray for the souls of those killed in
    the September 11 attacks and called on Russia and the United
    States to be "on the same side" in acting against Iraq.

    Ambassador Alexander Vershbow joined worshippers at
    the St Catherine American Orthodox Church in central Moscow.

    Russian citizens, former Cold War enemies of the United
    States, expressed a large outpouring of condolences
    immediately following the plane attacks that killed over 3,000
    people last year in New York, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania.

    The Russian government has also been strongly supportive
    of the White House's war on terrorism, likening it to its own
    battle against Muslim separatists in the republic of Chechnya.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin made a call to American
    President George W. Bush as soon as midnight struck on
    September 11 to express Russia's continued support.

    The post-September 11 unity has come under increasing
    strain from differences over the use of military force against
    Iraq and Russia's relations with Iran and North Korea, which
    Bush has labelled as part of the "Axis of Evil" along with Iraq.

    Ambassador Vershbow, however, sought to downplay the
    differences as he laid a wreath at a memorial board dedicated
    to victims of a bomb blast in 2000 which Russian officials
    believe may have been a terrorist attack.

    "We recognise that Russia itself has been the target of
    terrorism and that is why I am here today because we want to
    underscore the real solidarity between our two nations in
    trying to defeat the enemy of terrorism," said Vershbow.


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