Washington’s reaction to blasts in Damascus is a downright
justification of terrorism, slams Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov. US State Department announced that terror acts in Syria are not
surprising in light of the Assad regime’s actions.
“This is direct endorsement of terrorism. How are we supposed to understand that?” Sergey Lavrov shared his astonishment at a press conference in Moscow. “This is a sinister position, I cannot find words to express our attitude towards that.”
Lavrov
also expressed his surprise that the UN Security Council refused to
condemn acts of terror in Syria. The US permanent representative to the
UN Susan Rice has stated that terror acts in Damascus contribute to
speeding up the adoption of a resolution on Syria according to the
Chapter 7 of the UN Statute, which implies harsh sanctions, including
resorting to force.
“In other words this means ‘We are going to support such acts of terrorism until the UNSC does what we want’,” Lavrov commented on the US representative's actions.
US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said recently that there should
be closer work with opposition in Syria as it captures more and more
territories to prepare new actions of resistance to the government in
Damascus.
Lavrov noted that there were reports that the opposition
has taken control over border posts on the Iraqi and Turkish border
with Syria and reportedly, there were cases of looting of Turkish
property. According to some sources it was not Free Syrian Army
militants that captured those posts, but by groups linked to Al-Qaeda,
and Russian diplomats are verifying this information.
“If such
actions of taking territories by terrorists are supported by our
partners, we would like to ask them what their position on Syria is.
What do they want to achieve in this country?” Russian FM demanded.
As
for the EU unilateral sanctions against Damascus, they contradict the
decisions taken by the UN Security Council and agreements reached at
the Geneva talks, stated Lavrov.
“We believe the chosen
unilateral way contradicts the principal of shared management of affairs
accorded with the Geneva agreement,” Lavrov said, adding that Russia advocates collective discussion of any questions.
“Unfortunately, when the EU, US and some other states began to adopt sanctions on Syria they did not consult with us at all,” Lavrov observed.
Now
that the Syrian crisis is over a year and a half old it is not exactly
correct to appeal to the Security Council to adopt sanctions, shared the
Russian diplomat.
Lavrov stressed that should the international
community intended to address the Syrian crisis collectively – it should
have been done that way from the very beginning, dealing with both
combatant sides equally.
The heads of the EU foreign ministries
have made a decision to broaden the list of Syrian officials banned from
EU, also freezing their bank accounts and assets in EU countries.
Additional
measures have also been adopted to ensure arms embargo on Syria.
Henceforth, sea vessels and cargo aircraft heading for Syria are subject
to compulsory inspection in case there are grounds to suspect they
carry arms and prohibited equipment to Syria.

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