Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said onWednesday that extremist circles from organizations banned by the UN Security Council should not be allowed to join the negotiation process on Syria. “We cannot allow for extremist circles from organizations banned by the [UN] Security Council to leak into this political process,” Lavrov ...
Russia considers it inappropriate to introduce new sanctions against Syria and will not support such a proposal, President Vladimir Putin has stated. “As for sanctions against the Syrian leadership, I think the move is totally inappropriate now. It does not help, would not help the negotiation process. It would only ...