Hague vows to step up support for Syrian rebels

He said the Syrian rebels were clearly receiving arms from the outside but
that Britain was not providing any yet.

“We don’t approve of sending arms into Syria, but that is happening,”
he said.

“I don’t rule out any option for the future because we can’t foresee how
it will develop. But it has never been our policy in any of the conflicts in
the Middle East to send lethal assistance to any of the parties involved.”

Mr Hague said the Security Council “has not shouldered its
responsibilities. It is not doing what it should be doing to try to bring a
solution to this”.

He also rejected “spurious” claims by China and Russia that the
resolution voted down on Thursday would have opened up a path to military
action.

“I think they don’t want to see what happens in Syria as another victory
of any kind for Western foreign policy. … But this is not the West,”
he said.

“They [Russia] will regret it because I think that the situation will now
deteriorate further sharply and probably to the disadvantage of the Assad
regime and to the disadvantage of Russian interest in Syria and the Middle
East in the longer term,” Mr Hague said.

Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday slammed Western criticism of its UN veto
as “unacceptable”.

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