Τετάρτη 18 Νοεμβρίου 2015

Lavrov: It is "unacceptable" to request the departure of Assad

Lavrov: It is "unacceptable" to request the departure of Assad



After the attacks in Paris is "unacceptable" to require the withdrawal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as "a prerequisite for any association against terrorism", said today the head of Russian diplomacy Sergey Lavrov during a press conference.

"I hope there will be a change in the position of our other Western partners, as was unfortunately the risk terrible terrorist acts in countries of our Western colleagues," Lavrov said, referring to France was hit by a series of deadly attacks.

"It is unacceptable to set conditions in order to establish any union against terrorism," he said, suggesting Americans who continue to claim before anything else the departure of Assad.

"You have to put aside the proposal that an effective fight against jihadist organization and similar can not take place only when it is decided the fate of Bashar al-Assad," he said at the end of his meeting with Lebanese counterpart Tzempran Basilan.

After the attacks in France, the US and Russia began a rapprochement of positions regarding the Syrian crisis and agreed with the partners of the G20 Turkey to reinforce their cooperation against the jihadist threat.

However according to Lavrov, Americans continue to "promote vigorously" the departure of Assad before the formation of any union against terrorism.

Moscow and Washington oppose the start of the conflict the fate of Syrian President: Russian President said last week that he does not feel he has the "right" to ask Bashar al-Assad to leave power, while the USA They seek retirement.

For his part, US President Barack Obama said today that the Russian strategy in Syria hides a "trap, that Moscow has always been interest in Assad stay in power."

Lavrov had said a little earlier that there is still no agreement between the global forces after their talks in Vienna on the role of President Assad in resolving the conflict in Syria.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia does not change its plans for air strikes in Syria. Yesterday Russia pounded positions of IK in Syria, after the announcement of the Russian government that bomb is responsible for the crash of the Russian airliner in Egypt on October 31. Responsibility for the attack took the first days the IR.

President Putin announced the "escalation" of Russian air strikes in Syria, today signed a decree creating a commission that would focus on combating the financing of terrorism.

The Peskov told reporters that their own air strikes can not have full success in the fight against jihadist organization Islamic State and that these should be supported by the ground operations carried out by the Syrian army.

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