Russia won't pressure Assad, says Lavrov

 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is "absolutely" no adventitious of Moscow cogent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to angle down. 

He said that Russia was not in the "regime-change game".
The capital action group, the Syrian National Coalition, has continued insisted that President Assad have to go afore any talks yield place.

Mr Lavrov is due to appointment London next anniversary for talks with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Both countries say the Syrian crisis will top the agenda. Russia has commonly been a abutting accessory of the Syrian government and is the country's better accoutrements supplier.

But while there is acceding that a adjourned adjustment is the best way forward, Mr Lavrov added that there was no catechism of Russia allurement President Assad to angle aside.

"I can alone say it is not for us to adjudge who should advance Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide," he said.
Asked if there was any adventitious of Russia advancement President Assad to angle aside, he said:

"Absolutely not. You apperceive that we are not in the regime-change game. We are adjoin arrest in calm conflicts."

Mr Lavrov added that this was a point of assumption and that, in any case, President Assad has no ambition of resigning.
Asked if there was any accepted arena amid Britain and Russia on Syria, Mr Lavrov said: "I don't anticipate we are far afar as far as the closing ambition is concerned. We both wish Syria to be united, to be democratic. We both wish the Syrian humans to accept advisedly the way they would like to run their country.

"That has been the Russian position... back the crisis started."

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