Russian FM: UN resolution on Syria “borders on hysteria”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday, February 6 sharply rejected western criticism of Russia’s veto on a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, saying it was “bordering on hysteria.”

“Some comments from the West on the UN Security Council vote, I would say, are indecent and bordering on hysteria,” Lavrov told reporters. “Such hysterical comments are aimed at suppressing what is actually happening.”

Lavrov and Foreign Intelligence Service chief Mikhail Fradkov are to visit Damascus on Tuesday, as news reports said the mission could try to push Assad to quit.

“Russia strongly intends to achieve a rapid stabilisation of the situation in Syria through the rapid implementation of much-needed democratic reforms,” the Russian foreign ministry said earlier.

China also rejected criticism of its veto while calling on both sides to the conflict to halt the violence that has claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people since March, according to rights groups, AFP reported.