Moscow did not ask Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, nor did it offer him political asylum, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Authorities did not ask Syria's Assad to step down, did not offer him asylum
"In both cases, the answer is: 'No'," Lavrov told his annual news conference. "This is untrue... No one asked about political asylum, and no one offered anything of the kind."
Russia did not ask Syria's Assad to step down, did not offer him asylum -Lavrov
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