MOSCOW, June 21 (Itar-Tass) Russia will not admit a replay of the Libyan scenario in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow liberal radio. It wasnt the Libyan people who decided Gaddafis fate, it was NATO, he said. Nothing would have happened there without NATOs bombings. Or, to be more precise, a reciprocal self-annihilation of the people would have continued, but NATO wouldnt have gotten a mandate to take part in that war as one of the warring sides anyway.
Thats why Gaddafis plight is a somewhat different story but a replication of the Libyan scenario in Syria wont be admitted, and we can guarantee this, Lavrov said. Thats why the parties to the Syrian conflict should take seats at the conference table and negotiate peace.