FM Lavrov on Syria interference proposals in Geneva
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Russia will remain opposed to any foreign interference in Syria that could be discussed at the upcoming Geneva summit.
The Russian top foreign official said Syria needed to go through a “transitional period” to recover from crisis, stressing however that it was up to the Syrians to decide on how the process must run.
He noted it was of essence that the Syrian government and all opposition groupings sat down at the negotiating table to determine the “mechanism” of such recovery.
Mr. Lavrov reminded the international community that it previously agreed to give Syria a leeway to settle the conflict under Kofi Annan’s peace plan.
Question (addressed to US Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov): After your recent discussions, including on Syria and the episode of detention of a US Embassy official in Moscow on a charge of espionage, do you think that your collective work is constructive? Sergey Lavrov (answers after John Kerry): Regarding the incident of the detention of a US Embassy official in Moscow that you have mentioned, everything, that the Russian party wished to say about it, was said yesterday in the comment of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. I have nothing to add.
Dear Mr Chairman,Dear colleagues, friends, First of all, I would like to thank our Swedish hosts for their hospitality, good organization of the today’s meeting and to congratulate Mr Carl Bildt with the results that were reached by the Arctic Council under Swedish chairmanship.
Today we sign the second in history legally binding panarctic document – Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic. This is another evidence of high responsibility of Arctic countries for the state of affairs in the region. The next is the preparation of the Agreement on Marine Oil Spill Prevention.
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