OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion has joined the United States in condemning Russia over the escalating fighting in Syria and failed efforts to end the war in that country.
Dion said in a statement Monday night that Russia’s actions on the ground over the past months “call into question” its commitment to peace and its ability to control what he called the “appalling actions of the Syrian regime.”
His statement came after Washington suspended diplomatic contacts with Moscow over the war in Syria after Russian President Vladimir Putin put on hold a deal with the U.S. on disposing weapons-grade plutonium.
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Source: National Newswatch
