MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Anti-terror fight should be waged only on the basis of international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told an annual news conference here on Wednesday.

“Bombardments on the territory of a sovereign state, including bombings under the pretext of destroying terrorist groupings, without consent of that country and without a direct permit granted by the UN Security Council are illegitimate,” he said, noting that “moreover, only the UN Security Council is empowered to consider a grouping as terrorist, if we want so that this qualification will be compulsory for all countries in the world.”

This also concerns the need to observe Syria’s sovereignty and the need to observe Lebanon’s sovereignty regardless whether this is the struggle against extremist organisations, such as Jabhat al-Nusra or the Islamic State through “a coalition which the United States “has formed” and which operates, say, in Iraq at consent of Iraqi government and in Syria without such agreement,” the minister said.