Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has left little room for compromise on the question of outside intervention in Syria, complaining in an interview with the Financial Times that Russia had been all but tricked into supporting last March’s UN resolution on Libya.
He said the broad way in which the western allies interpreted March’s resolution 1973 had turned it into “a scrap of paper to cover up a pointless military operation” and practically ruled out supporting any resolution on Syria, no matter how vague.
Speaking of the worsening situation facing Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader, Mr Medvedev said: “I would not like a Syrian resolution to be pulled off in a similar manner [to Libya].”
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