Attempts to portray the results of the Geneva-2 international peace conference on Syria as a failure and push for military intervention in Syria are categorically unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
"Everyone is saying that there can be no military solution. But increasing attempts to portray Geneva-2 as failure against the backdrop of those statements give the impression that someone is harboring a military scenario. This is categorically unacceptable," Lavrov told reporters after talks with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh a-Sabah.
Russia hopes to agree with UN on Syria aid resolution soon
Russia's
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday the UN resolution on
humanitarian aid access in Syria could be agreed in "the coming days" if
Security Council members do not seek to "politicise" the issue,
Interfax reported.
Moscow expects the UN Security
Council to come to agreement on a resolution on humanitarian aid for
Syria within days, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Moscow
initially opposed a Western-Arab draft resolution on aid to Syria but
then proposed its own text, saying it was ready for negotiations.
"If
no one in the Security Council politicizes the issue or tries to push
unilateral approaches, then, I am convinced, we will be able to reach
agreement in the coming days," Lavrov said during the third ministerial
meeting within the framework of strategic dialogue between Russia and
the Gulf Cooperation Council, which was held in Kuwait on Wednesday.
Russia's Ambassador Churkin hopes UNSC will pass Syria resolution
The
Russian authorities are hopeful that the draft resolution on
humanitarian aid access to Syria that is currently being debated by the
UN Security Council will eventually be adopted, Moscow's Permanent
Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters. "I believe
that the humanitarian resolution will be discussed in the first place as
a priority. In my opinion, it will include some strongly worded
references to terrorism, but it does not mean that we will stop pushing
for the adoption of the [UN] Security Council President's statement on
counterterrorism," Churkin said.
"I
cannot say that we are far away from this now. We share an
understanding of the gravity of the humanitarian situation in Syria," he
said.
The
US Permanent Representative to the UN, Samantha Power, for her part,
said that the United States would seek the adoption of a tough-worded
resolution submitted by the West.
UN
Under Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos, who
took part in the UN Security Council session, said that some 1,400
civilians have been evacuated from the Syrian city of Homs over the past
few days.
Amos
called it a success secured in the extremely complicated conditions,
but not progress, adding that another 250,000 people are still awaiting
evacuation.
On
February 12, Russia submitted its own draft resolution concerning the
humanitarian situation in Syria to the UN Security Council as an
alternative to the document proposed by Western countries.
Russia
also criticized the Western draft resolution, saying that it may
effectively impose sanctions on the Syrian authorities in the future.
Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on
Tuesday in relation to the West-proposed document that "it appears that
now they attempt to use the humanitarian topic, same as the topic of
chemical weapons that was recently used, in order to find a pretext to
undermine the political process, to accuse the regime in Damascus of
everything and to create a pretext to return to a military scenario with
the purpose of changing the regime."
"We think that this is absolutely counterproductive," Lavrov said.
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