Konflikten i Syrien

”Lavrov says West fails to meet its commitments on Syria

MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. The Western countries are not coping with their obligations on Syria and the UN Security Council’s urgent session was called on September 25 to distract attention from the bombing near Deir ez-Zor, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the NTV channel.”


“In their reports, he went on to say, Western media were showing damaged trucks, allegedly bombed by Russian or Syrian planes, and even stated that traces of an impact of an air bomb of Russian manufacture had been identified at the site of the tragedy.

"If it is true there was an air strike, then where are the craters?" Lavrov asked. He recalled that in the very first seconds of the first video report aired by the ABC one could see "traces of aluminum powder, a characteristic feature of ammunition Predator drones are armed with. Also, the Americans by no means deny that their drone was above the area of Aleppo where the humanitarian convoy came under attack at the moment of the strike."

Later, those very first seconds of the video footage showing a cloud of metal particles were removed from western media newscasts.”


“"US Secretary of State John Kerry keeps saying that Jabhat Al-Nusra poses the same terrorist threat as the Islamic State (both outlawed in Russia)," Lavrov said. "But Nusra remains untouchable. This is a paradox. I don’t know whom I can trust. That I cannot trust them (the United States) one hundred percent is for certain."

"It is a vicious circle. Each time Russia or Syrian planes hit Nusra positions, they make a fuss, claiming that we’ve hit the patriotic opposition again thereby pushing it into Nusra’s embrace," Lavrov said.”

Damascus has a recording of conversations between the American military and Islamic State terrorists ahead of the US-led coalition airstrike that hit Syrian troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of the People's Council of Syria said.