Russia warns against intervention
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Russia warned yesterday that military intervention in Syria could have “catastrophic consequences” for the region and called on the international community to show “prudence.”
“Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
“We are calling on our American partners and all members of the world community to demonstrate prudence (and) strict observance of international law, especially the fundamental principles of the UN Charter,” ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that “the West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade.”
On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned the “hysteria” over the claimed chemical attack and said the West had yet to come up with proof Assad’s regime was behind it. He also said Russia would not get involved in a military conflict in Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told British Prime Minister David Cameron in a phone call on Monday there was no evidence the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against rebels, Cameron’s office said.
Russian officials are comparing the possible use of force against Syria to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, which was opposed by Moscow as based on flawed intelligence Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction.
“Deja-vu,” Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, wrote on Twitter yesterday.
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