Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on all countries to join forces in the fight against international terrorism.
“I am deeply convinced that we should be together in this struggle,” Medvedev said upon arrival to the Philippines.
Being divided, Russia and other countries will be able to “somehow counter terrorism,” he said.
“Of course, Russia can live without these contacts,” he said. “We will continue to confront terrorism the same way as before and we will win this fight. The West will, probably, withstand as well. The question is: at what price?”
Medvedev stressed that the recent terrorist attacks on Russia and France have affected the entire world. “An explosion in the Russian plane over the Sinai Peninsula, which claimed the lives of 224 people, the mass murder of people in Paris is not a crime against a single country. This is a crime against the entire world, and we should confront terrorists together,” he said.
The Russian federal security director Alexander Bortnikov said Tuesday that the Russian plane crash in Sinai was caused by a bomb since they found traces of a homemade explosive device in the wreckage.
The Egyptian cabinet said in a statement that it will take the Russian investigations into consideration.
Russia will use the right to self-defence guaranteed in the UN Charter to fight terrorists, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released Tuesday about the Metrojet A321 plane crash in Egypt on 31 October.
“We consider the barbaric attack on our citizens in the context of the recent series of bloody terror strikes committed in Paris, Beirut, Iraq, Ankara, and Egypt,” the statement read. Under these circumstances, Russia will act in compliance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, which provides for the right of a state to self-defence.
Moscow asked for the UN Security Council not to waste time and to pass a resolution on forming a broad anti-terrorist coalition.
The Russian Parliament (Duma) called on lawmakers from Europe, North America, the Middle East, and other regions “to spare no effort to form an international anti-terrorist coalition,” according to its statement.
“The Russian lawmakers share the grief and sorrow of the families of those killed in unprecedented brutal and large-scale attack of Islamic State gunmen in Paris and the crash of the Russian A321 plane in Sinai that was caused by actions of terrorists,” the statement read.
