A statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry aired some of those grievances, saying that Moscow “will continue to seek a revision of the US administration policy based on dividing terrorists into a “bad” and “good” ones” and complaining that the USA was unwilling to engage in “full-fledged coordination” between the two powers’ militaries while both are conducting airstrikes in Syria.
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Kerry will hold a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.
“We are not playing, “Let’s Make a Deal” here, trading Ukraine for Syria”, said the official.
“Russia and the United States agree that this is a threat to everybody, to every country”, he said.
It refers to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Russian Federation for the second time in seven months.
They insist Russian Federation has committed to a political transition to end the war, and warn that if it can not get Assad to the table, the Kremlin’s own forces will get bogged down in the fighting.
Lavrov noted “outstanding issues” with the US on the Syrian political transition that is supposed to bring representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government together with the opposition for negotiations by early January. The Russian strikes were initially reported in late November, but Russian officials have not gone on record on the matter.
With videos, satellite photos and documents, Russian Federation denounced before more than 100 journalists and military attaches the complicity of Turkey in the oil smuggling with the ISIL and other terrorist groups, as well as its logistical support and arms supplies to these forces.
Plans are afoot for more global talks later this week about the situation in Syria.
“We need to understand who precisely has joined this coalition, and what aims they are declaring”, he said.
Russian Federation says only the Syrian people themselves can decide this.
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
More than 5,000 FSA troops are assisting in a Syrian government operation in the provinces of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa, Sputnik cites Gerasimov as saying. Western allies Germany, Italy and Britain were to attend the talks, along with regional players in the conflict, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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The opposition leaders met last week in Riyadh and began the process of deciding their negotiating team – but also repeated their demand that Assad step down immediately.
