Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged Western countries to fulfill the plan of UN envoy to Syria as he said the opposition militants were responsible for the massacre of more than 100 people in the town of Houla.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged Western countries to fulfill the plan of UN envoy to Syria as he said the opposition militants were responsible for the massacre of more than 100 people in the town of Houla.

World powers had to "play the game of fulfilling the Kofi Annan plan and not the game of regime change," Lavrov said at a joint news conference with his British counterpart William Hague.
"We are deeply worried that the Annan plan is being implemented unsatisfactorily. We are still far from our goals," Lavrov said.

On the massacre in Houla, Lavrov said some victims had been killed at close range in a district controlled by opposition militants.
As he said that Russia was "deeply alarmed" by Houla massacre, the FM said: “we are dealing with a situation in which both sides evidently had a hand in the deaths of innocent people," he said.

"There is no doubt that the government used artillery and tanks and this has been reported by UN observers who have visited the scene," he said.

"There is also no doubt that many bodies have been found with injuries from firearms received at point-blank range. So the blame must be determined objectively. Nobody is exonerating the government or the rebels but we must understand how it happened so that it can never be repeated."

For his part, Hague warned there will be "chaos and civil war" if the Annan plan is not implemented.
"The alternatives are the Annan plan or ever increasing chaos and a descent closer and closer to all-out civil war and collapse," he said.