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July 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “Russia was invited. They made it known that they did not want to participate, which is not a surprise,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
The upcoming meeting will be the third such gathering after one in Tunis in February and another in April in Istanbul.
Russia and China have not participated in the previous meetings, saying the nation of Syria should decide about their future.
However, the US, France, Britain, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among those countries who have attended the gatherings to decide about Syria.
Syria has been the scene of violence since March 2011. The Western powers are pushing President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing protesters, but Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Moscow would not attend the meeting.
“After the start of the Geneva process on June 30, there is no need for any other forums like that, where nearly 150 countries will participate,” Lavrov said.
He accused the West of seeking to “distort” an agreement reached last weekend in Geneva on a plan for a political transition to end the conflict.
On June 30, an agreement was made during the Geneva meeting on a Syrian-led transitional governing body that “could include members of the present government and the opposition and other groups, and shall be formed on the basis of mutual consent.”
“Some representatives of the Syrian opposition started to say the Geneva decisions have been unacceptable for them. Meanwhile, some Western participants started to publicly distort the agreements reached,” Lavrov said.
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