13 Mar 2013 20:43

Syrian people should decide on Assad's future - Lavrov

LONDON. March 13 (Interfax) - Arms supplies to Syrian opposition by foreign countries run against international law, while it is the Syrian people who should decide on the future of the incumbent President Bashar Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"As to a possibility of supplying arms to the opposition, I understand that the international law prohibits that. Arms supplies to the opposition will be a violation of international law. We can recall the example of Libya, when the [UN] Security Council imposed embargo on arms deliveries to both sides of the conflict, but such deliveries to the opposition openly continued," Lavrov told a news conference in London in the wake of the 2+2 talks.