Moscow concerned over Israeli Air Force strikes on Syrian facilities — Foreign Ministry

World December 08, 2014, 14:39

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, it's important to prevent further destabilization of the situation in the rigion

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Moscow has serious concerns over reports on Israeli Air Forces’ strikes on facilities in Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday.

“Moscow voices deep concern over the dangerous development of events. Their circumstances should be clarified. In any case it is certain that the use of force is unacceptable in interstate relations and deserves disapproval,” he said.

“It is important to prevent additional risks of further destabilization of the extremely tense situation in Syria and in the Middle East region as a whole,” Lukashevich said.

On Sunday the SANA news agency said citing a Syrian government representative that Israel’s warplanes had delivered air strikes on civil facilities near the Syrian capital city Damascus. According to the representative, air strikes were delivered on districts in the Dimas locality and in the vicinity of the international airport of the Syrian capital.

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