G8 foreign ministers held second day of talks in London Thursday focused on giving more support to foreign-backed insurgents fighting the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad.
The talks came as Syrian insurgent chieftains renewed their appeal for lethal aid including heavy weaponry to be deployed against the Syrian nation and government.
Britain stressed its call for arming the Syrian insurgents at the talks but no signs of a major shift in policy emerged.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned his counterparts from the US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Canada that neither side can win the battle in Syria, casting doubts on the motives of some of the countries interfering in the Arab Middle Eastern country.
“We have long been trying to calm the situation [in Syria]. But as soon as the slightest glimmer of hope appears… someone immediately does everything possible to frustrate the hope. There will be no winner”, Lavrov said.
“I do not know for whom it is advantageous. It may be advantageous for many. For example, for those who would like to see fewer big and influential countries in the region”, he added.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague claimed that the world had done too little to try to resolve Syria's two-year-old conflict.
"The United Nations Security Council has not fulfilled its responsibilities because it is divided.
That division continues. Have we solved that division at this meeting? No. We didn't expect to do so," Hague told reporters.
Britain and its allies are seeking to militarily intervene in Syria at a time that the terrorist al-Nusra Front fighting President Bashar al-Assad pledged allegiance to al Qaeda chieftain Ayman al-Zawahri on Wednesday, fuelling concerns that Syria could become a hotbed for terrorists in the region.
"Moscow is seriously concerned with a bigger interest in Syria on the part of al Qaeda, the observed plans by international terrorists to turn this country into their main springboard in the Middle East," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a separate statement on Thursday.