West is losing influence on Syria opposition,says Lavrov

Russia says the West has failed to achieve enough control on Syria’s newly formed “opposition coalition”, warning against the repetition of the military intervention in Libya.
“I think that the Western sponsors of this coalition are already losing their influence on it,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Saturday.
Lavrov said he believed the West did not really desire to intervene in the Syrian conflict and that they were even “praying for Russia and China to continue blocking permission for external intervention” in Syria.“Because if there is such a decision, they will have to act, and no one is ready to act,” he stated,according to Press TV.

Lavrov reiterated Moscow’s opposition against any foreign intervention in Syria, recalling UN Security Council resolutions that NATO used as a pretext to launch a military action on Libya in 2011.

“We are convinced that the UN Security Council must not take any more ambiguous decisions, after our partners behaved so abominably over the resolution on Libya,” he urged.

On Friday, Lavrov denounced Western countries for supporting the armed groups  fighting government forces in Syria. “Our Western colleagues have started dividing terrorists into ‘bad’ and ‘acceptable.’ That is very dangerous,” he said.

M.D