ANNAN’S RESIGNATION OPENS DOOR TO SYRIA MILITARY INTERVENTION – RUSSIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 3, 2012 – 13:04 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – The resignation of UN and Arab League envoy to Syria
Kofi Annan “opens the gates” for backers of a military intervention
into the Arab state to force out the ruling authorities, Russian
Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Friday, August 3,
RIA Novosti said.
Annan, who assumed his post in February and authored a six-point peace
plan aimed at ending the Syrian conflict, announced on Thursday that
he would quit by the end of the month citing the deadlock at the UN
Security Council over ways to resolve the current political crisis
in the country.
“Annan’s decision against extending his mandate as the UN envoy to
Syria raises loads of questions regarding the future of this country.
He is an honest international mediator but someone wants to push
him out of the game to open the gates for forceful actions. This is
obvious,” Gatilov wrote in his Twitter account.
Since March 2011, the Syrian conflict has claimed 14,000-20,000 lives,
according to estimates by various Syrian opposition groups. The West
is pushing for President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, while Russia and
China are trying to prevent outside interference in Syria saying the
Assad regime and the opposition are both to blame for the bloodshed.
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