G20 members fail to heal rift over Syria

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3. If 'dickwaving' means "hasty measures ignoring any legitimate international institutions"

Yes.

... “A number of states maintained the stance on the necessity of hasty measures ignoring any legitimate international institutions,” Dmitry Peskov, press secretary for the Russian president, said following a working dinner, which capped the first day of the summit.

“A number of other states called against the depreciation of the international law and to remember that only the UN Security Council has the right to make decisions on the use of force,” he said...

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... "Military action would have a negative impact on the global economy, especially on the oil price - it will cause a hike in the oil price," said Zhu Guangyao, the Chinese Vice Finance Minister.

Brazil, India and South Africa also worry that intervention would do economic harm, according to Mr Putin's officials.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said the leaders of the large emerging economies spoke before the St Petersburg summit and agreed that Syrian intervention would have an "extremely negative effect" on the global economy."

While the British and French governments have both backed the principle of military intervention to punish the Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons, the European Union as a whole is opposed, European officials said...

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