Syria:Putin warns about bypassing UN in Libyan-type scenario

(ANSAmed) - MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 27 - Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has warned the West not to bypass the UN Security Council, and thereby repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria. ''I truly hope that the US and other countries will take into account the regrettable experience, and will not try to employ military means in Syria without authorisation from the Security Council,'' he wrote in a long election campaign article on foreign policy published today in Moskovskie Novosti.(ANSAmed).