Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich on Thursday called on Damascus to “fully implement the obligations it assumed” in accordance with the six-point peace plan proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan in March.
“There is another side in Syria,” Lukashevich noted.
“Opposition groups have essentially reverted to waging wide-scale terror in the region,” he pointed out, accusing the gunmen of using tactics that pointed to the involvement of al-Qaeda terrorists.
“Killing as many peaceful civilians as possible and destroying civilian infrastructure remind one of what is happening in Iraq, Jordan and other places where al-Qaeda and its groups operate,” the official said.
Meanwhile, Syria’s main opposition group has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting, citing reports that the army has killed more than 100 people in the central city of Hama in the past few days.
The claim comes less than two weeks after Syria hosted the first group of UN observers, approved for monitoring the ceasefire in the country under the UNSC Resolution 2042 passed on April 14.
On April 21, the UNSC members met and unanimously voted on Resolution 2043 to send a mission of 300 observers to Syria.
Syria has been experiencing persisting violence since mid-March 2011 and many people, including a large number of security forces, have been killed in the protracted turmoil.
The implementation of the Annan-proposed plan initially brought relative calm to the country, but reports of clashes and attacks on civilians and government forces have been rising in recent days.
The government insists that foreign-backed terrorist groups are bent on undermining the peace plan.
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