Envoy warns of civil war in Syria

Pressure from West harmful, ambassador says

BEIJING - Syrian Ambassador to China Imad Moustapha warned on Tuesday that foreign intervention in his country's political process would trigger a civil war causing massive amounts of death and destruction.

"The Western thought is to push the Syrian crisis to its extreme possible scenario which would be disintegration and civil war," said Moustapha, who was the Syrian ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2011.