There was no immediate comment from Israel, with Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev saying Israel's position of no negotiations under fire had "not changed".
A long list of countries has provided military aid to the rebels, including Saudi Arabia, France, Britain, the US, Turkey and Qatar – and have resolutely held the rebel forces to a position of non-negotiation with the Assad regime.
"Military activities are an instrument for strengthening their political position ahead of negotiations," says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a journal.In this section Adieu, Cuba à la française What if it were true?
Around 60% of Ukrainians believe Kiev should fight to win the territory back, according to a recent poll, and Poroshenko has been ramping up the war footing, which experts suggest is "flexing muscles" to gain a stronger position ahead of negotiations.
Over in Doha where the latest round of climate negotiations are going down this week Connie Hedegaard, the lead negotiator for the European Union, noted by tweet that the go-slow position of the Obama negotiation team hasn't changed despite Obama's post election pledge to take action on climate change.
We investigate the degree of flexibility in auditor and client initial negotiation positions, whether auditors and clients accurately perceive the other party's positions, and the types of negotiation tactics that may be used by both parties.
The reflexive turn in the social sciences; the emphasis on the mutual construction of discourse; the positioning and negotiation of subject identities and the instability of knowledge as a category –have all profoundly influenced debates about the nature of relations between researchers and research participants.
"The Israeli government effectively took the position of renouncing the process of negotiations and renouncing any serious potential for peace in the Middle East," said Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian observer at the United Nations.
9.04am GMT Blair Jenkins, the chief executive of the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign, told BBC Radio Scotland this morning that ruling out a currency union was a "very extreme position being taken for the purposes of negotiation" by the pro-Union parties.
