Russia and Syria call for the US to back peace conference

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Russia and Syria are calling for the US to concentrate its efforts on holding a peace conference, urging the US not to carry out a military strike.

In a press conference held jointly with his Syrian counterpart Waleed Al-Mu’alem, Lavrov warned that carrying out a military strike on Syria might lead to the spread of more terrorism.

For his part, Al-Mu’alem accused the American President, Barack Obama, of supporting terrorists, comparing the situation to what happened in the US on 11 September 2001.

Barack Obama
Russia-Syria
Russian Government
Sergei Lavrov
Syria-US
US Government
US Military
Waleed Al-Mu'alem

Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.