US agreed not to repeat Syria strike: Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed the recent US missile attack against a Syrian airbase as an act of “provocation” and said that Washington has agreed not to repeat such strikes in the future.

“I would like to stress that the US missile attack on the Shayrat airbase was actually a provocation,” Lavrov said at a Thursday meeting with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Moscow.

Referring to his Wednesday meeting with his US counterpart Rex Tillerson in Moscow, Lavrov said, “The US Secretary of State and I thoroughly discussed the situation and agreed that this should not happen again.”
The Russian foreign minister also warned of ongoing attempts to disrupt peace efforts in Syria and noted, “Not everybody is happy about the progress that we ensured together with our Turkish and Iranian counterparts, as well as with the Syrian government and Kazakhstan, while the United States participated as an observer at the Astana talks.”

“Attempts are being made to disrupt the ceasefire which was agreed in Astana and welcomed by the United Nations Security Council,” he added.