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Speaking to AsiaNews, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, condemns threats of NATO intervention without a UN mandate. |
Moscow (AsiaNews) - As a Western military
intervention against
the regime of Bashar al-Assad appears increasingly likely, the Russian Orthodox
Church expresses "strong concern" about possible developments of the
crisis, this following US charges that the regime used chemical weapons against
civilians.
"Once again, as was the case in Iraq, the
United States is acting as an international executioner", said
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External
Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Speaking to AsiaNews, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church strongly
criticised the US position, which is "completely one-sided."
"Without the endorsement of the United
Nations, they want to decide the fate of a whole country of millions of
inhabitants."
"Once again," Hilarion warned,
"thousands of lives will be sacrificed on the altar of an imaginary
democracy;" among them, according to the Metropolitan, there are, first of
all, "Christians, about whose fate no one cares."
They are at "risk of becoming hostages to
the situation and the main victims of radical extremist forces, who, with the
help of the United States, will come to power."
"The international community," he
concluded, "must do everything to avoid that events develop in this
direction." (M.A.)
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