Friday, April 15, 2016

Lavrov: Russia proposes international monitors deployed on Syrian-Turkish borders

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for deploying international observers at Turkey’s borders with Syria to monitor the situation and stop the flow of terrorists and weapons from Turkey to Syria.

In a joint press conference with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Tokoyo on Friday, Lavrov drew attention to the problem of ‘holes’ on the Turkish borders through which gunmen and weapons get into Syria.

” There are ‘holes’ on the Turkish borders through which gunmen and weapons get into Syria, while going in the opposite direction is “a flow of different contraband,”

He said: ” We are regularly posing this question to all our partners who are interested in the settlement of the crisis in Syria, including to Americans as Turkey is a member of the US-led anti-terrorist coalition,”


  • “US representatives assure us that they are also concerned about the borders problem and work with Ankara to solve it,” he went on.

“We propose, so far not in any official format but as a draft resolution or some other decision, that Turkey invites independent international observers to its territory to watch what is going on on these borders in reality,” he said.

“It is clear that international observers can be deployed only at the invitation of Turkey, we are pinpointing the issue, including in the United Nations, in the hope that Western allies will put pressure on Ankara and will get a concrete answer from it,” Lavrov added.

  • On the other hand, Lavrov called on the United States not to exploit the behavior of Democratic Korea and taking it as an excuse to deploy the US missile shield in the region and pump more weapons to northeast Asia.

In turn, the Japanese foreign minister announced that Japan will continue political dialogue with Russia for reaching a peace treaty, pointing that the Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe agreed with Russian officials in April 2013 to reach an agreement to overcome the differences between the two sides .
[sana.sy]
15/4/16
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