Russia Calls West 'Accomplice' in Syria Violence
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Russia on Friday accused the West of being an "accomplice" to the violence in Syria and said the country's opposition bore full responsibility for ending the ongoing violence.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Syrian President Bashar Assad's promise to stage a new constitutional referendum meant that it was now up to the armed resistance movement to take the next step.
He also warned that Russia was ready to follow this month's veto of a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on the crisis with additional "strong measures" should the West continue to refuse to acknowledge the opposition's role in the crisis.
"The Syrian leadership has assured us of its readiness to quickly hold a referendum on a new constitution and move toward elections," Ryabkov told the ITAR-TASS news agency.
"This means that the opposition bears full responsibility for improving the situation and finding a way to stop the bloodshed."
"Western states that push the Syrian opposition into uncompromising measures, which arm them and give them advice and instructions are accomplices in the process of inflaming the crisis," he added.
"The responsibility rests with those who while holding the levers of influence over the opposition still fail to call it to order and demand that it accept the Syrian government's offers and begin real talks."
Russia and China used their veto power this month to block a Western-Arab Security Council resolution condemning the Assad regime for the violence.
Moscow accuses the West of planning "regime change" in Syria and fears possible military intervention like that which led to the ouster and ultimate killing of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
Ryabkov warned Friday that Russia "will have to again and again resort to strong measures" at the Security Council if Western states introduce new resolutions on the crisis that only blame Assad.
He also dismissed joint efforts by the United States and Turkey to organize an international conference on the crisis and possible relief efforts for the opposition.
"Russia does not share the West's views about so-called humanitarian intervention," said Ryabkov.
10 February 2012, 13:53
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That's rich coming from one of Pukin's slaves!!, after the Russian and Chinese Dictatorships having vetoed the UN resolution that has even been watered down to virtually nothing just to apease these two, they send their bastard Lavrov to incite ASSad into further murdering his people. This is what these two criminal governments are doing in the name of their people and have been doing to their own peoples away from the probing eyes of the media. They are just upholding their criminal bloody and corrupt dictatorship "values" elsewhere in order not to deal with democracy movements at home. So the Onus now is on the Russian and Chinese peoples to either stay living desperately in fear and at the mercy of incompetent and criminal leaders increasingly isolated from the rest of the world or take back their respective countries and chose democracy and intigration with the rest of the civilized world.
10 February 2012, 16:03
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funny people russians and M8 supporters!
syrians started this rebellion peacefully. then for months they ve been shot at like rabbits... then they decided to defend themselves... then some muslims wanted to seize the opportunity to benefit from it, more and more soldiers desert... and now violence is unstoppable till bashar stays in power...but it has never been a revolution triggered by the bad muslims! but by the people!
west has nothing to do with this: proof is they ve waited for months before raising their voices or backing the opposition!! if they really wanted bashar out they would have done so months ago! but bashar is precious to israel don t forget that....till israel has no guarantee golan heights will stay calm the west will leave bashar in power
so russia and syrian regime expect people to get slaughtered like sheep and do nothing? sooooo funny!
10 February 2012, 18:28
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like it or not mr i know better, the protest were peaceful in the first months!...
and typical reaction of M8 populist who believes everyone against syria or the hezb is a pro israeli... same old fascist scapegoat technique my friend, revise your history and find better arguments :)
