Casting doubt over the invitation of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to dispatch a fact- finding mission to Syria over the usage of chemical weapons by Syria army, Lavrov said some foreign powers are seeking to use such claim to prepare the ground for military attack, Al-Alam reported.
However he urged all these parties to avoid such claims and repeat the Iraq scenario.
Lavrov also noted that “no one has presented any proof for these claims [of a chemical attack near Homs] and the intelligence agencies, including the ones of our Western partners, said that these statements lacked any detailed proof whatsoever.”
Lavrov also refuted the reports in the Lebanese media that the Russian stance on Syria had changed.
“We can guess that there are people in Lebanon and in a number of other capitals in the region who would like to indulge in wishful thinking,” the minister said.