Medvedev on Syria: Policy Differences Cannot Justify Affairs Intervention

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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that different assessment of certain politicians' actions may not be a cause for interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Different assessment of certain politicians' actions may not be a cause for interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

"We can have different assessments of certain political figures, but this is not a reason to launch an intervention or set a country on fire from the inside! Now the country is engaged in a civil war, everyone fights each other — Shiites versus Sunnis, Sunnis versus Druzes, Christians, Alawites. Who wins from it? Maybe [Syrian President Bashar] Assad is not an ideal of democracy, but it was necessary to ensure that the elections were held there, not to unleash such a tough campaign. As a result, everyone suffers," Medvedev said in an interview with Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper ahead of his Munich visit.

Medvedev branded the developments in Syria a lesson of "how easy it is to create a problem and how difficult to solve it afterwards."

Syria has been in a state of civil war since 2011, with the army loyal to President Bashar Assad fighting several opposition factions and extremists.

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