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Lavrov urges journalists to avoid focusing on economic sanctions against Syria

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NEW YORK, October 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged journalists Monday to avoid focusing on the possibility of economic sanctions against Syria.

"You should not concentrate on Article 7 of the UN Chapter, but read the whole text [of the resolution] instead," he said at a news conference after the UN Security Council meeting in New York.

Article 7 of the UN Chapter contains provisions allowing the Security Council to introduce measures that include a full or partial break of economic relations, the interruption of railroad, maritime, air, postal, telegraph, radio and other communications and the suspension of diplomatic relations.

Lavrov also denied any resemblance of the current discussion on Syria and the former situation with Iraq, adding that in the case of Syria, the focus should be on cooperation.

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