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Washington denied it had blocked the statement and said it had only asked for balance. The disagreement was likely to sour the atmosphere before Lavrov meets newly appointed US Secretary of State John Kerry next week in Berlin.
Lavrov told a news conference that Washington had disappointed Moscow by blocking a statement condemning terrorist attacks near the Russian embassy in Damascus that killed more than 50 people and that Washington was threatening international unity in the “war on terror”.
“We believe these are double standards,” Lavrov said after talks with China’s foreign minister.
“And we see in it a very dangerous tendency by our American colleagues to depart from the fundamental principle of unconditional condemnation of any terrorist act, a principle which secures the unity of the international community in the fight against terrorism,” he said.
A spokeswoman for the US mission at the United Nations said it had not blocked any statement of condemnation but had sought to balance the text with criticism of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s forces, which it said Russia had rejected.
“We strongly condemn all indiscriminate terrorist attacks against civilians or against diplomatic facilities,” said Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the US mission.
Ties between Washington and Moscow have worsened since Vladimir Putin returned to Russia’s presidency last May.
The passage of US legislation intended to punish Russian officials accused of human rights abuses and a Russian ban on American families adopting Russian children have also contributed to the deterioration in recent weeks.
Lavrov made his comments at a joint news conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi after talks that underlined the closeness of their views on policy in Syria and North Korea.
China and Russia, both permanent members of the UN Security Council, have blocked attempts by the West to mount pressure on Assad to end the violence in the nearly two-year-old conflict that has killed some 70,000 people.
The two ministers condemned North Korea’s nuclear test last week but said that any response should go through the UN Security Council.
China and Russia had agreed that it was “vitally important not to ... allow the situation to be used as a pretext for military intervention”, Lavrov said.
North Korea’s latest test, its third since 2006, prompted warnings from Washington and others that more sanctions would be imposed on the isolated state. The UN Security Council has only just tightened sanctions on Pyongyang after it launched a long-range rocket in December.
The North is banned under UN sanctions from developing missile or nuclear technology.
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