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Sana

2nd March, 2012

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday said it is guided in dealing with the crisis in Syria by the basis of spreading peace and that through its stance in this regard it is defending justice, noting that there is not any specific draft UN Security Council resolution about the humanitarian situation in Syria.

Spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, pointed out in a statement reported by Russia Today website that the leaks circulated in foreign media stressed that some foreign journalists were transferred to Lebanon with the help of gunmen, “which indicates to who actually had control over some of the neighborhoods in the city of Homs.”

Answering a question on how Russia will vote on a draft resolution asking Syria to allow the entry of humanitarian missions, Lukashevich said “There isn’t any draft resolution so far. What is proposed now is just a virtual document.”

He noted that the UN Security Council is continuing non-official consultations on the current events in Syria, stressing that such consultations have not stopped over the past period.

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Russia is working at the Security Council on the basis of its directional principles and not resorting to force by the outside, in addition to sending a clear signal to all the Syrian parties to stop the violence and start comprehensive dialogue with the aim of finding a way out of the crisis and keeping away from any foreign interference.

He stressed that the Syrian people alone can determine the form of their country’s future in the way they find fit.

Lukashevich said that Russia supports the concept of spreading peace, stressing that it will resist any disposition that is not at ease with this logic and will prove that the world order should not be otherwise.

H. Said