‘US applying double standards over Syria’

February 23rd, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Washington’s refusal to condemn a car bombing that killed 53 people in the Syrian capital a day before was against the fundamental principle of the global fight against terrorism.

“We are disappointed that, as a result of the United States’ position at the United Nations Security Council, the terrorist act in Syria was not condemned,” Lavrov told a joint news conference after talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Moscow.

“We believe this is double standards and see in it a very dangerous tendency by our American colleagues to depart from the fundamental principle of unconditional condemnation of any terrorist act, a principle which secures the unity of the international community in the fight against terrorism,” Lavrov added.

Russia’s UN mission has also accused the US of “encouraging” militant attacks in Syria by blocking the Council’s statements on Damascus car bomb attack, which occurred near the entrance to President Bashar al-Assad’s ruling party offices.

Meanwhile, the UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has said that the deadly car bomb attack in the Syrian capital was a “war crime” and that it killed about 100 people.

The toll given by Brahimi was grimly higher than the 53 dead given by Syrian authorities. He also said that over 250 civilians were injured in the explosion.

“Nothing could justify such horrible actions that amount to war crimes under international law,” Brahimi said in a statement on Friday.

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