Lavrov: US-led Coalition against “ISIL” is “Mistake”

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The US-led campaign against "ISIL" militants in Iraq and Syria is a "bad mistake," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview.

"Unfortunately, when the Americans announced this crusade against "ISIL" in Iraq and Syria, they never came to the Security Council, they just announced the coalition and they announced that the Iraqi government gave its consent," Lavrov told Bloomberg TV in an interview.

"I believe it was a mistake. I think that just an obsession with the personality of [Syrian President Bashar] Assad is not bringing any good to the common cause of fighting terrorism."

Russia is not against the actions of the international coalition against "ISIL", but bombardment of the militant-controlled areas of Syria without the approval of Damascus authorities is a mistake, Lavrov said.

The Russian Foreign minister said that the Takfiris might move very far away from Syria and Iraq. He also said the UN Security Council needed to take steps to find out who was buying oil from the "ISIL" militants.

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