When asked about a recent proposal from Saudi Arabia to send in ground troops to Syria, the prime minister answered that "the Americans and our Arab partners must consider whether or not they want a permanent war."
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the use of ground troops in the Syrian conflict could result in world war.
Medvedev was quoted as saying in an interview published late yesterday by the German newspaper Handelsblatt that "a ground operation draws everyone taking part in it into a war."
When asked about a recent proposal from Saudi Arabia to send in ground troops to Syria, the prime minister answered that "the Americans and our Arab partners must consider whether or not they want a permanent war."
Medvedev criticised Western powers' refusal to collaborate with Russia in Syria. The prime minister said ties at the level of defense departments are only sporadic.
Meanwhile, the United States has accused Russia of worsening the brutal Syrian conflict with its military action in support of President Bashar al-Assad, as international talks unfolded in Munich on ways to resolve the crisis.
"It has been Russian support for the Assad regime over the past months, and most recently in the siege on Aleppo, that has exacerbated, intensified the conflict," State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Thursday.
Toner's comments came after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that any move by Gulf nations to send troops to support the rebels in Syria would risk the outbreak of a "new world war."
The State Department spokesman said that Moscow, with its air strikes begun on February 1 over northern Syria, had "put the political process in jeopardy" as world powers try to put a stop to a ferocious civil war that has dragged on for nearly five years.
Foreign ministers gathered in Munich struggled to make any headway today on efforts to obtain a ceasefire. US Secretary of State John Kerry was among those present, along with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
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