MOSCOW - A senior Russian diplomat says that Moscow will oppose a new draft United Nations resolution on Syria because it fails to take Kremlin's concerns into account.
Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying Friday that the draft worked out by the West and some Arab states fails to exclude the possibility of outside military intervention.
Gatilov said that Russia was also unhappy with the draft holding the door open to unspecified "additional measures" in case of Syria's non-compliance.
The UN Security Council has been unable to agree on a resolution since violence began in March because of strong opposition from Russia and China. Syrian President Bashar Assad's crackdown on the uprising has left more than 5,400 people dead, according to the UN estimates.
