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  • Moscow Calls For Discussing Attack On Syria's Kesab At UN Security C

    MOSCOW CALLS FOR DISCUSSING ATTACK ON SYRIA'S KESAB AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL

    Interfax, Russia
    April 1 2014

    The Russian Foreign Ministry has called for discussing an attack on
    the Armenian-populated town of Kesab in northern Syria by extremist
    groups linked to al-Qaeda at the UN Security Council.

    "The UN Security Council should discuss the situation in Kesab and
    issue its principled judgment about these events," the ministry said
    in a commentary on Tuesday.

    The area surrounding Kesab, which is located 65 kilometers away
    from Latakia in northwestern Syria, where Armenians have lived as
    a colony for centuries since the existence of the Armenian Kingdom
    of Cilicia, "was brutally attacked by units numbering in several
    thousands belonging to the extremist groups of Jabhat al-Nusra and
    Ahrar ash-Sham linked to al-Qaeda," the Foreign Ministry said.

    "There were no military facilities in the historical Armenian enclave
    struck by the international gang of murderers and rapists," it said.

    These people have found refuge with their relatives and at churches
    belonging to various Christian denominations in Latakia, it said.

    "As for a video posted on Youtube, even if, as some sources claim,
    it shows not the execution of Armenians in Kesab but the gunmen's
    merciless retribution to Syrian army soldiers, this does not make
    this crime less monstrous," it said.

    "We strongly condemn the atrocities committed by extremists in Syria.

    We believe it is especially important in the current conditions
    to attain the goal set at the G8 summit at Lough Erne to seek
    consolidation of the Syrian government's and the opposition's efforts
    to eradicate terrorism on Syrian soil and smash and evict extremists,"
    it said.

    "Any runarounds aimed at postponing practical steps to this effect
    before the formation of a transition governing body in Syria, not to
    mention attempts to justify the terrorists' crimes, are absolutely
    unacceptable," the ministry said. "It is necessary to act without
    delay," it said.

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