Lavrov: Those blocking [terror]militants’ pullout from Aleppo want terrorists to take over control

Those blocking [terror]militants’ pullout from Aleppo wanted the terrorists to retain control over city, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after holding talks with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni.


According to the Russian top diplomat, Moscow had supported the idea to provide the militants with an opportunity to leave eastern Aleppo although it was a controversial idea. "But those who wanted eastern Aleppo to remain under the terrorists’ control, prevented the militants from pulling out of the city," Sergey Lavrov stated.

"After a large part of eastern Aleppo was cleared of terrorists, the so-called local council stopped threatening to attack humanitarian convoys travelling along the Castello road," the Russian minister noted. "We informed the UN that there are no more obstacles preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid, they just needed to contact the Syrian government about humanitarian convoys."

"The UN is still thinking how to do that while Russia has sent additional humanitarian aid as well as two mobile hospitals, medical equipment and medicine to Aleppo," Lavrov noted. "If other countries want to assist civilians in Aleppo then they should do the same."

Moscow has been taking all necessary measures in order to prevent civilian suffering in Aleppo:

"As for humanitarian organizations’ data on the number of civilian deaths in Aleppo, we always pay attention to such reports and also assess them because most reports sparking outrage over the situation in the city are based on the information provided by the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which is a one-man organization based somewhere in London in a two-bedroom apartment. Everyone knows it but nevertheless continues to cite the Observatory as a credible source of information," the minister said adding that the information provided by this organization required double checking........More: tass.com
 2/12/16
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