Assad: Russia Saves Middle East with Vetoing UNSC Resolution

(FNA)- When Russia vetoed the UN Security Council's resolution it saved the whole the Middle East, rather than just Syria, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin in Damascus.

Bashar al-Assad said that with its fourth veto on the UN Security Council's resolution Russia saved stability in the world and reversed hegemony of the West, Voice of Russia reported.

Credit here goes to Russian President Vladimir Putin who has managed to provide Russia's comeback in the world, and even to a more important position than the one occupied by the Soviet Union in the past, Assad said.

On Thursday, Russia and China imposed a veto on the UN Security Council's resolution on Syria stipulating that the so-called Syrian file should be sent to the International Criminal Court. The resolution was put forward by France. Russia's Permanent Representative at the UN Vitaly Churkin said that the file only serves as a pretext for coercive intervention in the situation in Syria.