Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States had started to create a “free Syrian army” with the participation of militants from the IS (recognized as a terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation, “Islamic State” being old name). Its aim is to destabilize the situation in the region, the Russian minister said during a meeting of foreign ministers from Turkey, Syria, Iran and Russia.
The objective is obvious – to use these militants against the legitimate authorities of Syria to destabilize the situation in the country
said the diplomat.
The militaries of Russia and Syria recently discussed this issue, Lavrov said. The result was an agreement on a common action plan. Moscow adheres to the position on the inadmissibility of gross external interference in the work of the region, in particular with the use of military force.
The Foreign Minister added that the process of normalizing relations between Turkey and Syria opens up opportunities in the “Astana” format to resolve the crisis in Syria. A key principle in this regard for Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran is to facilitate the safe and voluntary return of refugees to the country.
The launch of the Turkish-Syrian normalization process has a positive impact on the situation in the region and the Middle East as a whole
concluded the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Earlier, the Arab League decided to bring Syria back into the union 11 years after the country was expelled. The initiator of the exclusion was the United States, which still today expresses its dissatisfaction with Syria’s “premature” return to the Arab League.
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