UNSC should condemn crimes committed against Syrians – Lavrov

The UN Security Council must unambiguously condemn the reported killings of Kurds by radical forces, which try to establish an “Islamist state” in Syria, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,according to RT.

Lavrov commented on Wednesday on the reported slaughter of 450 Kurd civilians, including more than 120 children, by the “Al-Nusra Front.”

 “This was not the first report of such a massacre, but the continued violence is going off the scale. Yesterday there was a new terror attack in Damascus. It must be stopped immediately,” Lavrov said.

The international community must send a clear and coherent and unambiguous message condemning the killing of civilians in Syria by the forces opposing the Syrian government, Lavrov said.

“We saw before some Security Council members reluctant to condemn terror attacks in Syria on the grounds that – as cynical as it sounds – those attacks are being carried out by the people fighting against an obsolete regime,” the minister noted. “This position is absolutely unacceptable. No double standards can be applied to terrorism.”

Lavrov called on the international players to put more effort into convincing Syrians to stop fighting each other and join forces to expel foreign terrorists. This was part of a joint statement by G8 members after the Lough Erne summit in June.

 M.D