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Tuesday 9 February 2016 - 13:27
Story Code : 200950

Moscow Slams UN Chief for Syria Comments

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Russian foreign ministry on Monday criticized UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over his claim that Russian airstrikes in Syria had undermined last week's peace talks to end the country's five-year war.





"We have always considered and continue to consider that comments from the chief administrator of a global organization ... should remain impartial and objective," the ministry said in a statement.

Ban had "practically" accused Russia of leading to the collapse of the talks, it added. "This is clearly not what happened."

UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura last week suspended attempts to begin a dialogue between Syrian government and the opposition, as Russia pressed its bombing campaign in the war-torn country, AFP reported.

Ban told Britain's The Financial Times newspaper last week that "aerial bombing continued" when the talks began, making it "extremely difficult" for negotiations to take place.

Washington had also accused Moscow of being "partly" responsible for torpedoing the Geneva peace talks.

One day after the talks broke down, Russia's defense ministry said that airstrikes had hit 875 "terrorist targets" in Syria since the start of the month.

By Tasnim News Agency

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