MOSCOW. Oct 24 (Interfax) - The way on which the Libyan crisis has been resolved is a dangerous scenario to use as a precedent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has argued.
"If we support the line that is being pursued by the West at the moment, a line that amounts to using the Libyan case as a precedent, this line will undoubtedly provoke sentiments of this kind. It would egg on peoples, egg on the masses, and this isn't hard to do as we have seen and continue to see in Egypt," Lavrov said in an interview with radio stations Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow), Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) and Radio Rossii (Radio of Russia) on Friday.
"If the principle that you are a bad guy and so there can be no discussions with you, you must go at any cost, underlies the position of the world community, of course it will be a direct provocation of violence and unrest," he said.
"We stand for dialogue, we stand for encouraging everyone without exception in any country where there is a conflict to sit down and seek an agreement, primarily in pursuit of the interests of their country and not anyone's personal subjective, selfish interests," the minister said.