MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/. Russia urges to end Middle East bloodshed and set conditions for political settlement; No one will be able to win the armed confrontation, stated the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the Turkish newspaper Hurryet newspaper.

“We urge you to refrain from actions that could further escalate violence and lead to uncontrollable situations,” he said. “There will be no winners in this conflict. The path to normalization of the situation lies in ending the bloodshed and establishing the conditions for a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on universally recognized international law. This includes the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders,” Lavrov added.

The Foreign Minister expressed confidence that only such a solution “will be able to guarantee sustainable peace in the Middle East.” Lavrov emphasized that the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict has led to another round of violence: tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians have died in Gaza, the death toll in Lebanon runs into the thousands, and more countries are becoming entangled in the cycle of confrontation. . .

The minister recalled that Russia condemned Israel’s assassinations of political leaders of the Palestinian movement Hamas, the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah and senior Iranian military officers. “We proposed to evaluate these actions through the UN Security Council, but we were unable to do so due to resistance from Western members of the body,” he said.