RUSSIA says it is surprised by US President Barack Obama's recognition of the Syrian opposition, saying Washington was now betting on an armed victory by rebels in the conflict.
"I was somewhat surprised to find out" about the recognition announcement, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments broadcast on state television on Wednesday.
"The United States has decided to place all its bets on an armed victory of the (Syrian) National Coalition," he added.
Russia will now ask the Americans to specify how they regard the Syrian opposition after Obama's comments, he added.
Russia has defiantly refused to turn against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite the conflict that according to rights groups has killed 42,000 people.
In an interview with AFP last month, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev slammed as "unacceptable" the recognition and support by France and other states of the newly unified Syrian opposition to Assad.
Lavrov said that the recognition by the United States contradicted previous agreements on the Syria crisis earlier this year, which envisaged the start of an "inter-Syrian dialogue".
He said Moscow had believed that Washington understood the need for full talks that would include representatives of the Syrian government.
"So for us this is an unexpected turn of events and we will clear up what exactly they (the United States) meant," Lavrov added.
The Syrian National Coalition is a bloc of opposition groups led by moderate cleric Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib formed after talks in Qatar in November as part of a Western-backed push to make the opposition a more cohesive force.
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