Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

13:23 01/07/2011

MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti)

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The refusal by the Syrian opposition to hold dialogue with the country's authorities is unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

"If the opposition is truly interested in reforms in the Syrian society and state, then it is simply unacceptable to skate out of such proposals (of holding dialogue)," Lavrov said after a meeting with French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe.

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