The West incites radical activists to commit crimes in Syria, which very much concerns Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said following his meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland.
"It’s a pity that Western countries who are so proud of being concerned over human rights violations and the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, in fact continue to support radical activists and extremists," Lavrov pointed out.
He also said that militants who will refuse to leave eastern Aleppo will be wiped out. "A Russian-US agreement has not been formalized yet. Anyway, those will refuse to leave of their own accord will be wiped out. There is no other solution," Lavrov said.
"Yesterday we received from them a notification they will be unable to attend a meeting. They are revoking their previous document, now they have a new one. This document, according to our first impressions, takes everything back to square one and looks like an attempt to gain time to let militants take a break and replenish their reserves," TASS cited the minister as saying.
"There is the understanding that a serious discussion with our American partners does not work. That was precisely the case with the September 9 agreements, which were achieved and took effect, but the United States eventually started looking for pretexts for quitting them and finally produced such an excuse. The current situation looks very similar."
One has the impression, he added that Washington tries to discredit Kerry’s statements and actions after the aforesaid agreements had been concluded at meetings with him.
Lavrov added that the attack on the Russian Defense Ministry’s mobile hospital in Aleppo was planned by those who are trying to retain their positions in Aleppo under the guise of their foreign patrons.
