MOSCOW, November 2, Sergei Safronov. Western speculation about alleged Russian arms supplies to Hamas are doomed to failure, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov said in an interview.
«Such speculation is an outright provocation, aimed, among other things, at undermining Russia's relations with the states of the Middle East. But such attempts are doomed to failure in advance,» Venediktov said.
He emphasized that Russia has played a significant role for many decades in bringing together the positions of the parties to the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation and has always tried to break the deadlock in the Middle East settlement process. Moscow continues to make such efforts today.