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Russia warns West against attempts to oust Syria's Assad

sergei lavrov

 

by Joseph Earnest April 29, 2013  

Newscast Media MOSCOWRussia has warned the West against using a search for chemical weapons in Syria as an attempt to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

"There are governments and outside players that believe that all means are appropriate [to be used] to overthrow the Syrian regime," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.

Referring to the use of chemical weapons by foreign-backed militants on March 19 near the city of Aleppo, where 25 people were killed and 86 injured, Lavrov criticized UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his call on a UN fact-finding mission to investigate unproven claims about the use of chemical weapons in Syria in December 2012.

"This demand by the [UN] secretary-general with reference to a forgotten episode reminds us a great deal of attempts in Syria to introduce a practice analogous to that which existed in Iraq, when they were looking for weapons of mass destruction there," Lavrov added.


The Syrian government requested top UN officials to open an investigation into the March 19 incident. However some Western nations are blocking the investigation, demanding that the commission should investigate a different case of supposed chemical attack near the city of Homs in December for which the militants blame government forces.
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