West wants confrontation with Russia – Lavrov — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

The West is making an attempt to incite an unavoidable confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Monday.

Chatting with his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, Lavrov lamented that Russia is unable to focus its efforts on its relationship with the Center Jap nation, blaming Western makes an attempt to fire up battle in Ukraine, allegedly with the objective of encouraging struggle between Russia and NATO.

“The scenario on the earth is growing quickly. This additionally applies to northern Africa and the Center East, together with Syria,” Lavrov stated. “Sadly, our efforts with you … are affected by the environment that’s now being escalated our Western colleagues.”

In keeping with Lavrov, the “Western alliance” is making an attempt to create an “virtually insurmountable confrontation” with Russia.

In keeping with the international minister, Moscow desires to focus its efforts on working in direction of a ceasefire and political settlement in Syria.

The Russian presence within the nation, on the invitation of President Bashar Assad, has been ongoing since 2015, and is aimed toward aiding Damascus’ struggle in opposition to extremist Islamist terrorism.

The minister additionally pressured that NATO makes an attempt to spoil Russia’s status on account of its presence in Syria can be fruitless.

“We definitely is not going to enable such makes an attempt to undermine our capacity to realize concrete outcomes,” he famous, stressing that Russia would work to strengthen Syria’s “sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence.”

In response, Mekdad revealed Syria’s assist and gratitude for Russia’s efforts and echoed Lavrov’s assault on NATO.

“The marketing campaign of hypocrisy, lies, and deception waged by the West is similar because the marketing campaign it launched in opposition to Syria,” Mekdad stated.

Lavrov is because of meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Europe on Thursday to debate choices for diffusing quickly rising tensions surrounding Ukraine. Many NATO members, together with the US, have made allegations that Russia is getting ready for an imminent invasion of its neighbor. The Kremlin has denied this.