Lavrov: Time to Stop Using Language of Ultimatums against Syria

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Tuesday that his country is against imposing an arms embargo on Syria.

Speaking at a news conference in Moscow following his meeting with Arab ambassadors to Russia on Monday, Lavrov said "lessons should be learnt from the situation in Libya, where an embargo on arms supplies was only applied to the Libyan army."

"Groups, including those formed from citizens who penetrated to Syria from other states, have been actively supplied with arms," he said.
 

"That is why proposals to introduce a ban on any arms supplies to Syria are quite unfair."

Expressing that Moscow knows how the arms embargo was applied in Libya," Lavrov stressed that the "Syrian opposition was receiving arms, with such countries as France and Qatar publicly stating that they have supplied those arms."

"It is important now to stop using ultimatums with Syria and work to move to the political means," The Russian official stressed.
 
This comes as Russian Foreign Minister issued a statement that called for "preserving unity, territorial safety and sovereignty, as well as preventing the escalation of the situation in Syria as a key country in the Middle East."


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org