Russia’s FM calls Syria rebel threats ‘outrageous’

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lavrov angry at westMoscow — Russia on Monday described as “outrageous” a threat by powerful rebel groups in Syria against those who attend peace talks on the conflict backed by Moscow and Washington.

“It is outrageous that some of these extremist, terrorist organizations fighting government forces in Syria are starting to make threats,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments.

Just like the Syrian regime, Russia usually refers to the rebels fighting the forces loyal to president Assad as “terrorists”.

“The threats are directed at those who have the courage to attend the proposed Geneva conference being offered by Russia and the United States with the entire world’s support.” He added

Nineteen Islamist groups fighting to topple Assad issued a statement on Sunday saying the proposed conference “is not, nor will it ever be our people’s choice or our revolution’s demand.”

They went on to say that anyone who attends such talks would be committing “treason” and “would have to answer for it before our courts.”

The Geneva conference was proposed jointly by Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry in May but has since been repeatedly delayed.

putin assad, cartoonUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is still to name a formal date for the proposed meeting despite comments from some Syrian and Arab nation officials suggesting the talks could be held late next month.

Lavrov said the Islamist commanders’ threats implied that Russian “diplomatic representative offices and diplomats (working) in foreign countries would be legitimate targets” of assassination and other attacks.

“This is all outrageous and unacceptable. And all of this, in the end, rests on the conscience of those who finance and arm these opposition groups,” Russia’s top diplomat said.

AFP

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20 responses to “Russia’s FM calls Syria rebel threats ‘outrageous’”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Not that Russia was helping anyone but Assad 3 years ago …. of course.
    Lavrov may be right, but he’s only just coming around to realizing some Syrians, like some Russians, wish to be heard and have some ‘say’ in how their country treats people.
    Even ‘gays’. 😉
    Too bad they and Assad dragged it out – which gave the ‘Real Idiots’ time to mount their own ‘pogroms’.

    1. Igor Chingoski Avatar
      Igor Chingoski

      For You is all about Gays, Like IF in this world there is not Straight People!
      You are an Idiot!!! here I leave You with something You will love to sit on–> ¡

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Dork #2 U R. I like women … gay or straight. Not that anyone in Lebanon does ….

      2. Esther Fernandez Avatar
        Esther Fernandez

        drunk russian

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Not that Russia was helping anyone but Assad 3 years ago …. of course.
    Lavrov may be right, but he’s only just coming around to realizing some Syrians, like some Russians, wish to be heard and have some ‘say’ in how their country treats people.
    Even ‘gays’. 😉
    Too bad they and Assad dragged it out – which gave the ‘Real Idiots’ time to mount their own ‘pogroms’.

    1. Igor Chingoski Avatar
      Igor Chingoski

      For You is all about Gays, Like IF in this world there is not Straight People!
      You are an Idiot!!! here I leave You with something You will love to sit on–> ¡

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Dork #2 U R. I like women … gay or straight. Not that anyone in Lebanon does ….

      2. Esther Fernandez Avatar
        Esther Fernandez

        drunk russian

  3. Esther Fernandez Avatar
    Esther Fernandez

    a criminal face

  4. Esther Fernandez Avatar
    Esther Fernandez

    a criminal face

  5. Igor Chingoski Avatar
    Igor Chingoski

    You both are very wrong, this whole mess started as an opposition to Assad by the USA, UK and Israel, after the Paris treaty in which Assad recognized Shebaa farms as Lebanese land, From there comes this conflict in Syria with an opposition financed by the group of khara, USA, UK and Israel,

    Israel does NOT want to give back Shebaa farms, This conflict in Syria was highjacked by terrorists and unleashed the killing by beheading of Catholic Priests, This are the terrorist harvested in USA, UK and Israel to derail treaties when the road to peace started between Syria and Lebanon, I know what some of You will say, You will say that I am pro Assad, And I know who will say it, those hypocrites who in turn are Israeli land grabbers, I will not be surprised that those treats are coming from Washington. So there You have Your criminal face, And for You Drawer/Cookie don’t worry about gays, all of them are in Israel with You. :-))))

    1. man-o-war Avatar

      “this whole mess started as an opposition to Assad by the USA, UK and Israel”, I agree with this. It had to do with the alliance between Syria and Iran. Destroy Syria and its military and Iran becomes a little easier to deal with down the road.

  6. Igor Chingoski Avatar
    Igor Chingoski

    You both are very wrong, this whole mess started as an opposition to Assad by the USA, UK and Israel, after the Paris treaty in which Assad recognized Shebaa farms as Lebanese land, From there comes the this conflict in Syria with an opposition financed by the group of khara, USA, UK and Israel,

    Israel does NOT want to give back Shebaa farms, This conflict in Syria was highjacked by terrorists and unleashed the killing by beheading of Catholic Priests, This are the terrorist harvested in USA, UK and Israel to derail treaties when the road to peace started between Syria and Lebanon, I know what some of You will say, You will say that I am pro Assad, And I know who will say it, those hypocrites who in turn are Israeli land grabbers, I will not be surprised that those treats are coming from Washington. So there You have Your criminal face, And for You Drawer/Cookie don’t worry about gays, all of them are in Israel with You. :-))))

    1. man-o-war Avatar

      “this whole mess started as an opposition to Assad by the USA, UK and Israel”, I agree with this. It had to do with the alliance between Syria and Iran. Destroy Syria and its military and Iran becomes a little easier to deal with down the road.

  7. wargame1 Avatar

    Expel the Iranian terrorists and its stooges from Syria Lebanon and Palestine.

    1. man-o-war Avatar

      In addition, we should expel all the Saudi terrorists in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. Any extremist religious fanatics should be expelled to the birthplace of their respective religion.

  8. wargame1 Avatar

    Expel the Iranian terrorists and its stooges from Syria Lebanon and Palestine.

    1. man-o-war Avatar

      In addition, we should expel all the Saudi terrorists in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. Any extremist religious fanatics should be expelled to the birthplace of their respective religion.

  9. wargame1 Avatar

    A quote of Mahatma Gandhi “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
    The peace talk will happen after expelling the Iranian terrorist and its stooge Bashar Al-Qaeda from Syria Lebanon and from Palestine. Once this is done Russia will either fight against the Syria rebel or withdraw from its base in Syria.Geneva piss conference is a waste of time and money. The Algerian Dog Brahimi is going round and round to Iran Russia and UN. Well the rebel controls the ground so who are you sign the peace treaty? The situation is out of control and who ever control the ground in Syria are in charge. The rebel are now well organized beating the crap out of Hezbushaitan and Iranian invading Pigs in Syria.

    Bashar has no plan to step down and when the UN USA Europe etc. includes Iran Russia and Bashar in the peace conference then it is clear that they want a Iranian/Russian dominated Syria. The rebel are precisely fighting against that force so Thats not happening and if they seriously think of that then they need more Iranian troops on the ground.

  10. wargame1 Avatar

    A quote of Mahatma Gandhi “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
    The peace talk will happen after expelling the Iranian terrorist and its stooge Bashar Al-Qaeda from Syria Lebanon and from Palestine. Once this is done Russia will either fight against the Syria rebel or withdraw from its base in Syria.Geneva piss conference is a waste of time and money. The Algerian Dog Brahimi is going round and round to Iran Russia and UN. Well the rebel controls the ground so who are you sign the peace treaty? The situation is out of control and who ever control the ground in Syria are in charge. The rebel are now well organized beating the crap out of Hezbushaitan and Iranian invading Pigs in Syria.

    Bashar has no plan to step down and when the UN USA Europe etc. includes Iran Russia and Bashar in the peace conference then it is clear that they want a Iranian/Russian dominated Syria. The rebel are precisely fighting against that force so Thats not happening and if they seriously think of that then they need more Iranian troops on the ground.

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