Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov on Thursday hit out at the United States for "blasphemous"
accusations blaming this week's blasts in the city of Aleppo on the Syrian
government.
"Yesterday I saw a semi-neutral
report on CNN that it was not ruled out that this terrorist act had been staged
by the government forces themselves," Lavrov said in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.
"I cannot imagine anything more
blasphemous."
Earlier this week two blasts tore
through an Aleppo campus while students were writing exams, killing at least 87
people. No one has claimed responsibility for the
blasts.
In a statement on Wednesday, the
Russian foreign ministry blamed "terrorists" for the "merciless bloody
provocation."
It said the explosions were "the
terrorists' revenge for the significant losses sustained in their confrontation
with government forces."
But the United States on
Wednesday said the blasts were caused by the government forces unleashing air
strikes on the university buildings.
"The United States is appalled
and saddened by the Syrian regime's deadly attack yesterday on the University of
Aleppo," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
AFP
International envoy Lakhdar
Brahimi and senior envoys from Russia and the United States called for a
political solution to end Syria's crisis on Friday January 11, but reached no
breakthrough. Reuters Americans are preparing a
provocation in Syria, involving chemical weapons, Iranian ambassador to Russia
Seyyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi has told the Voice of Russia radio
station. Syria has been experiencing
unrest since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of security
forces, have been killed. The Syrian government says the
chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that
a very large number of the militants are foreign
nationals.
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