He said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday that the peace conference to be held in Geneva to reach a settlement of the conflict in Syria will be postponed for a long time , " if not forever ," if the United States goes to plan a military strike against Syria.
Lavrov said during a press conference with Secretary of Foreign Affairs of South Africa : " If you have already implemented the process announced by U.S. President Barack Obama , something we all regret , would result in opportunities to postpone the convening of this conference for a long time if not forever."
Recall that in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in the suburb of Damascus on August 21 / August Americans accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad to implement it, Obama asked Congress to vote in favor of air strikes to Syria.
And tries the Russians and the Americans and the United Nations months ago organize a peace conference entitled " Geneva 2 " to search for a negotiated political solution between Damascus and the armed opposition.
The conference is expected to retrieve the outline of an international agreement concluded in Geneva on June 30 / June 2012 has not been implemented and to establish the baselines transition policy in Syria.
It was supposed to hold the second part of the mechanism Geneva in June, but was postponed to July there are major disagreements about its objectives and its participants , in addition to the continuation of the war that killed more than 100 thousand people in the two and a half years .
Russia supports the Syrian regime militarily , while the United States is supporting the armed opposition
