MOSCOW. May 25 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the recent bombing of Tripoli by the international coalition forces a violation of the UN Security Council resolutions.
"It is another major deviation from the UN Security Council's Resolutions 1970 and 1973. With all of the attempts to protect the civilian population of Libya, it is obviously impossible to deny the obvious fact that the bombing is not stopping the military confrontation in Libya and is only causing the civilian population in Libya more suffering, not making the declared common goal to promptly overcome the military conflict in Libya any closer," Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's envoy on human rights, democracy and supremacy of law, said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
The Russian diplomat reiterated that Russia is still convinced that the situation in Libya can only be normalized by immediately halting all military action to launch political settlement processes.
"We are again urging all parties to follow the said resolutions of the UN Security Council and the norms of international humanitarian law and provide real, not declarative, protection to the civilian population of Libya from the threats associated with the conflict," Dolgov said.
According to earlier reports, the international coalition has delivered another powerful strike on the Libya capital, which destroyed civilian infrastructure objects and caused civilian casualties.