“It is the point of view that the West should not embark on the path of a Cold War, but it needs cooperation with Russian Federation, without which the problem of the Syrian settlement, the problem of refugees can not be settled, and generally stabilization can not be achieved in the Middle East”, he continued.
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Diplomats from a group of countries, including the US, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, agreed on Friday to seek a temporary “cessation of hostilities” within a week and to “accelerate and expand” the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged Syrian communities beginning this week.
Analysts believe that Russia’s military intervention in Syria has given Assad a new lease of life and has also deeply alarmed the West.
“There is no evidence of our bombing civilians, even though everyone is accusing us of this”, he added.
“If Russia or the (President Bashar) Assad regime violates this agreement, what are the consequences?” he asked.
JOHN KERRY: Because obviously, if people who are ready to be part of the political process are being bombed, we’re not going to have much of a conversation.
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, gained significant foothold around the key city of Aleppo Saturday, setting their sights on the Islamic State group-controlled Raqqa province, according to media reports.
Any decision by Saudi Arabia to deploy Special Forces into Syria is linked to the US-led coalition fighting Daesh (the so-called IS), Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said on Sunday.
Conflicts in the Ukraine and Syria have forced the United States and other nations to condemn the actions of Russian Federation.
“Russia has a simple choice: fully implement Minsk or continue to face economically damaging sanctions”, he said. On the margins of the Munich Security Conference, the Secretary General met President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine. Medvedev said Nato’s stance towards Russian Federation was hostile.
Major powers agreed in Munich on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria, but the deal does not take effect until the end of this week and was not signed by any warring parties – the Damascus government and numerous rebel factions fighting it.
It came moments after French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Russian Federation must stop killing civilians if there is to be an end to Syria’s five-year civil war.
“This is diplomacy in the service of military aggression and it is working because we are letting it”.
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MSC chairman Wolfang Ischinger on Saturday also called on leaders of both Russian Federation and Western countries to move toward a compromise to ease tensions and resume constructive dialogues.
