Russian, German officials against arming Syrian rebels<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Voice of Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MARCH 14, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia is concerned with the intention of several Western countries to arm the Syrian opposition, Russia\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his Twitter blog, Mr. Gatilov wrote that arming the Syrian rebels contradicts the same countries\u2019 statements that they want stability in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, Germany\u2019s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called on European countries not to arm the Syrian opposition. Otherwise, there will be a threat that the conflict in Syria may spread to other countries, Mr. Westerwelle believes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was Mr. Westerwelle\u2019s reaction to a statement of his French counterpart Laurent Fabius, who said on Thursday that if the EU does not lift the embargo on supplies of weapons to Syria, France and the UK will arm the Syrian opposition on a unilateral basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Responding to the statements, Director of ODFS, Ribal Al-Assad commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I welcome the statements by Mr. Gatilov and Minister Westerwelle, the proliferation of arms in the region would only induce further instability. We need to work against violence not encourage it”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian, German officials against arming Syrian rebels Voice of Russia MARCH 14, 2013 Russia is concerned with the intention of several Western countries to arm the Syrian opposition, Russia\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says. In his Twitter blog, Mr. Gatilov wrote that arming the Syrian rebels contradicts the same countries\u2019 statements that they want […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}