Lavrov: No Confirmation of Cluster Munitions Used

LUXEMBOURG, (ST)_ Russia’s veteran Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, asserted that Syria has never used cluster munitions as claimed by human rights organizations.

In press statements here Sunday, Minister Lavrov added that “There are a lot of illegally supplied weapons in the Middle East and it is often very difficult to indentify their origin,”

 “There is no confirmation of that,” Lavrov underscored, reiterating that “The region is loaded with weapons, which are being brought into Syria and other countries in huge amounts and illegally.”

Syrian Army and Armed Forces General Command categorically refuted the news circulated by media outlets of fabrications and lies that the Army used cluster bombs against the foreign-backed mercenary armed terrorist groups.

In a Statement, the General Command underline that the Syrian Army doesn’t have such kinds of bombs, warning against the ongoing misleading media campaigns as to divert attention from the heinous crimes perpetrated by the foreign-backed armed terrorist groups against Syria and the Syrians.

M.A. Al-Ibrahim