US trade with Russian Federation makes up a trivial percentage of the country’s GDP.
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“And to have ground forces, we need to put an end to the Syrian civil war”, Araud said.
In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris and the downed Russian plane in Egypt, Moscow and Paris took steps towards a united military front against ISIL.
“Our Western partners realised the lack of prospects for the approach that many of them had taken”, Russia’s top diplomat said, referring to the insistence in the West that Assad should immediately step down. “We have had 785,000 refugees who have come into this country since 2009, I think, and of that, only 12 people were either arrested or deported at a few point of time and none of them attacked anybody in this country”, he added. Now, the emphasis has shifted to getting a political process in place that does not require Assad’s immediate departure from power as a non-negotiable first principle for getting a ceasefire in place-even if Washington, Paris, and Riyadh still maintain that Assad ultimately has no political future in Syria.
“It’s not the right moment to judge who is better and who is worse”, Putin said.
“I can tell you Daesh doesn’t have the natural incubator, social incubator, within Syria”, he said in a television interview with Italian national broadcaster Rai, using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.
Obama has focused his ire on Republicans throughout the trip, harshly criticizing GOP lawmakers and presidential candidates for acting contrary to American values. Asked how much territory the government still controls, Assad replied, “geographically speaking, the situation changes day by day”. The president declared, “We will destroy this terrorist organization”. “No xenophobic, anti-Semite, anti-Muslim act must be tolerated”, he said. Hollande said. “Our duty is to get on with our lives”.
Russian Federation says the world needs to fight against terrorism together. “We hope for effective cooperation with both France and other members of the UN Security Council in finalizing and passing the above-mentioned resolution”, she said. He’s held back from asking Parliament to vote on the issue for lack of cross-party support.
A US-led air coalition has been waging an air war against IS for more than a year, with French strikes in Syria beginning in September.
While the U.S. has been leading a campaign in Syria which allegedly targets the terrorists since about a year ago, Russian Federation started pounding terrorist positions in the Arab country late September.
Wednesday’s statement by Col.-Gen.
Further, Putin personally ordered Russian naval units in the Mediterranean, including the guided missile carrier Moskva, to await the arrival of an expected French battle group and to coordinate with it and treat it as an “ally”.
“When the Charles de Gaulle comes to the shores of Syria, joint military work will be organized”, he said, according to Russian news agencies.
“This logic dictates that not only Assad is a magnet for ISIS, but also Lebanon, Turkey, France and Egypt”, Lavrov said, naming the four countries where the terrorist group staged successful attacks in October and November.
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-Bloomberg’s Henry Meyer, Ilya Arkhipov and Josh Wingrove contributed.
