MOSCOW: Russia has said that any unilateral US military action against Syria will be in contravention of the international law even if such action is limited.
“Any unilateral military sanction bypassing the UN Security Council, no matter how ‘limited’ it is, will be a direct violation of the international law,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement late on Friday.
Lukashevich’s statement came after US President Barack Obama said on Friday that he sympathizes with Americans’ war-weariness but is considering a “limited, narrow” military response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons.
“These threats are unacceptable” and “undermine the possibility to solve the conflict in Syria by political and diplomatic means, [and will] bring about a new round of confrontation and casualties,” Lukashevich said.
“Threats of striking Syria are being issued instead of implementing the decisions of the G8 summit in Lough Erne [and] subsequent agreements to provide the UN Security Council with a comprehensive evaluation by UN experts, who investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria,” he added.
