Russia won’t allow Libyan scenario in Syria, FM says

Russia won’t allow Libyan scenario in Syria, FM says

December 9, 2012 – 17:15 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Russia will not allow a repetition of the Libyan
scenario in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on
Sunday, December 9, according to RIA Novosti.
`We’ll not allow the Libyan experience to be reproduced in Syria.
Unfortunately, our Western partners have departed from the Geneva
accords and are seeking the departure of [Syrian President] Bashar
al-Assad,’ Lavrov said, adding Russia was not clinging to any
individual leaders in Syria.
Russia says it has no special interest in seeing Assad remain in
power, but that the `Syrian people’ should decide his fate.
Meanwhile, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said
the Syrian leadership had assured Russia there was no danger of the
spread of chemical weapons in the Middle East country.
`The Syrian government is assuring us that it will not allow their
spread [chemical weapons]. We hope that this will be so,’ Patrushev
said.

From: A. Papazian