MOSCOW. Jan 16 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has called reports of the secret construction of an underground nuclear complex near the town of Al-Qusayr in Syria on the border with Lebanon as "frivolous".
"Essentially, Damascus has already reacted to the matter. As for us, we can only regret the damage to the reputation of a serious magazine from this sort of frivolous publication," the ministry's Department of Information and Press said in a commentary regarding the publication of the report in the German magazine Der Spiegel.