MOSCOW. Feb 11 (Interfax) - The UN Security Council's West-proposed draft resolution paving the way for the creation of humanitarian corridors in Syria is completely one-sided and "divorced from reality", Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov said.
"Indeed, our Western partners in the [UN] Security Council addressed us and offered to work together to draft this resolution. However, the ideas that they shared with us are absolutely one-sided and divorced from fact," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday, when answering a question from Interfax.
These ideas also disregarded the measures already being taken to deliver humanitarian supplies and international agencies' assessments of the humanitarian situation in Syria, "placing the blame for the situation in Syria on to the government," the minister said.
"As if there was no evidence that, according to these humanitarian agencies' assessments, the main obstacles to humanitarian aid shipments have been created by militants," Lavrov said.
A situation where militants hampered the passage of humanitarian supplies was observed during a humanitarian operation in the Old City of Homs, as well as during the delivery of aid to Palestinian residents of the besieged refugee camp of Yarmouk, he said.
"But, despite all of the provocations in Homs and Yarmouk, humanitarian aid is being delivered there," Lavrov said.
"If we really want the humanitarian situation to improve, we need to engage in scrupulous day-to-day work both with the government and the opposition in order to end the blockade of localities, primarily those that are currently surrounded and seized by militants," the minister said.