"We drew the attention that even such a soft mode of campaign against the Daesh seemed intense enough on the background of the fact that they did not touch Nusra Front at all. I asked the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, if there was some hidden intention to preserve this terrorist organization and to bring it out from under the strikes in order to make it the main force to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad at some point. He swore up and down that it was not the case, that they were fighting against it," Lavrov told the Channel One broadcaster in an interview.
He added that "mainly under the pressure of such conversations, the Americans declared that they killed one of the Nusra Front leaders," adding that in any case this was "a separate, isolated case" and not a part of the serious campaign against the group, outlawed in Russia.
"After the administration of Ronald Reagan created al-Qaeda, and the administration of George W. Bush created the Daesh we would not like the administration of Barack Obama to go down in history as the one which reinforced and ensured the success of another terrorist organization called Nusra Front," the minister concluded.
