Moscow is not interested in confrontation with the West, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century, speaking during a meeting with participants of all-Russian youth forum " Seliger - 2014 ".

" We were not interested in confrontation, We are not expressed interest in stirring sanctions spiral. Can only be noted that long before Ukraine attacks on the Russian Federation began to get totally inappropriate. It all started much earlier than the spring of the current year, remember how we are different words used to characterize due to the fact that if We hinder democratic revolution in the Syrian Arab Republic supported the dictator Assad. Now it will be interesting to listen to people who say that Assad more thing to keep will not, and it turns out that with him, willingly or unwillingly, have to cooperate if We want to defeat the terrorists from the Islamic countries, " Lavrov said.

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