Not refugees must be stopped, but terrorists and conflicts begetting them - Lavrov

UNITED NATIONS, September 30./TASS/. A firm barrier to aspirations of Islamic State to place the region under medieval dictate must be created to cope with the migrant crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a UN Security Council "Maintenance of international peace and security: Settlement of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and countering the terrorist threat in the region" on Wednesday. "Now, when a merciless expansion of terrorists has triggered an uncontrollable wave of mass exodus from the region to Europe, awareness of a common trouble must help in arriving at coordinated action," the top diplomat said. "We have paid attention to the fact that during a recent informal summit of the EU Council in Luxemburg and at a Prague summit of the Visegrad Group it was acknowledged distinctly that it would be impossible to cope with the migrant crisis without elimination of its prime causes," he said, citing the need to create "a firm barrier to aspirations of Islamic State to place the region under medieval dictate". "It is not refugees that must be stopped, but terrorists and wars and conflicts begetting them," the top diplomat said. Read more