The people of Syria, well aware of the criminal policy of the Russian authorities, who are interested only in political influence, and the sale of arms to the Syrian dictator whose guilt has already killed six. 000 civilians including children - has long been a lot of unhappy relations of Syria and Russia. Syrian citizens chanted Russia hands off Syria, about two hundred Syrians picketed the Russian Embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. According to some, they even managed to break into diplomatic missions. It is reported by Agence France-Presse, with reference to its own correspondent.
The demonstrators raised over the residence of the Ambassador of the Russian flag Syrian opposition. The crowd chanted anti-Russian slogans in support of UN Security Council resolution on Syria, which Russia and China blocked before.
As the representative of the Syrian National Council (one of the coordinating bodies of the Opposition), no violence towards the staff of the Russian Embassy was not manifested.
Employee of the Russian diplomatic mission in Libya informed the Agency by telephone.
With a sharp condemnation of the positions of Russia and China were in Syria on Sunday, officials from the U.S., UK and France. They expressed the view that the actions of Russia and China could lead to violent confrontation inside Syria, which at any time may result in civil war.
Deep regret was expressed by the veto UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, noting that such precedents undermine the image of the organization. Also, the position of Moscow condemned the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in which Russia is party to an observer.
In turn, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has promised that the Syrian leadership will call for an early reform. He has to hold talks with Bashar Assad in Damascus on February 7.
The draft resolution, which passed by a vote in the UN Security Council, developed by the League of Arab States, with the support of European countries. It is intended, according to the authors, to stop the violence in Syria, where from March 2011 clashes continued opposition and supporters of al-Assad.
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Russia has blocked the UN Security Council resolution on Syria for the second time, the first attempt was made to accept the document in October 2011. Initially, Moscow is not happy with the resolution that it created a threat of military invasion of Syria by Western countries as it was earlier in Libya.
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The new version of the document specified that the question of regime change is vnutrisiriyskim, but the Russian side did not accept that the text is much more than condemn the government of Syria, than the opposition.
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The standoff between the Assad regime and the opposition have led to the deaths of more than 6000 Syrians. On the eve of the vote in the UN Security Council Government troops fired artillery bombardment of the city of Homs, which killed over 200 people.
Syrian Homs under intense artillery fire. According to reports from the scene the BBC's Paul Wood -si, explosions could be heard almost constantly.
Over the 11 months since the start of the uprising, this is the most violent attack of government troops.
According to BBC correspondent BBC, the shelling resumed early Monday morning. Used heavy artillery and mortars.
A local resident Abdul Danny Daa'imah argues that the Army first used the rocket: in his district at dawn, he counted more than 300 breaks.
The rebels fired into the air from the machine, but, says BBC correspondent for BBC in Homs, it is simply demonstrative actions.
The opposition argues that the fire was subjected to a field hospital in the area of Bab - Amr, resulting in the victim is.
They say the witnesses, in the city there was only one hospital in which the operations affected by four doctors do. Representatives of the opposition claim that on Monday in Homs killed 15 people.
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U.S. President Barack Obama said that the conflict in Syria need to be addressed without resorting to military intervention.
Later, the U.S. State Department said the U.S. embassy in Damascus closed and all the diplomats leave Syria because of concerns about their safety.
Meanwhile, reports continue of collisions near the cities of Idlib and Zabadani in the north.
The government claims that troops are fighting foreign mercenaries. It is known that thousands of Syrian soldiers had deserted from the army and formed the so -called free- Syrian Army.
Human rights advocates argue that since March last year, when the confrontation between the authorities and the opposition, the Syrian military forces killed more than seven thousand. man.
In January, the UN said that to accurately estimate the number of victims of conflict in Syria is not possible, and ceased to publish their calculations, focusing on the figure of 5400 killed.
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The government of Bashar Assad said that in the battle against ' armed gangs and terrorists ' killed at least two thousand. security forces.
On Monday, a representative of British Prime Minister Cameron said: ... We believe such a stance incomprehensible and inexcusable '.
On Monday, as British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the pressure on Russia over its stance on Syria will be implemented through the institutions of the European Union.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would discuss the situation in Syria on the phone with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday evening.
' France and Germany will not leave the Syrian people in trouble - Sarkozy said after a meeting in Paris with Chancellor Merkel. - We do not reconcile with the fact that the international community to prevent the act '.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia intends to achieve the stabilization of democratic reforms in Syria. The blame for the failure of the UN resolution on Syria with Russian diplomats conferred on the partners in the UN Security Council, because of their lack of ' political will '.
It is expected that on 7 February to Damascus to meet Assad arrive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov.
As the correspondent of the BBC's Jim Muir -si, this step is in Moscow suggests that she heard criticism of the veto. Russia wishes to mediate in finding a political solution to the conflict, but Syrian opposition did not consider it an objective party, adds Muir.