The presidents of Russia and Iran said on Wednesday the crisis in Syria must be resolved peacefully without foreign intervention, according to a Kremlin statement.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed “the dramatic situation developing around Syria” by telephone a day after the United States appeared to open the door to eventually arming rebels.
“The sides spoke out in favor of Syrians themselves overcoming the crisis as swiftly as possible through exclusively peaceful means, without foreign intervention,” Medvedev’s press service said in a statement.
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