“According to official statistics from the Syrian side, between 2011 and the first half of this year, illegal mining by the US military caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to Syria.
The deployment of US troops in Syria is illegal, the theft of oil and the seizure of grain in Syria is illegal, and missile attacks on Syria are illegal, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
He noted that such actions and blatant violation of international law does not prevent the Americans from constantly flaunting their desire to defend the rules-based world order.
“The so-called US rules are nothing but an excuse and a cover to serve their own interests and maintain hegemony,” said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya, speaking at a meeting of the World Organization's Security Council, said that the West continues to plunder Syria's natural resources.