State Department: as long as Moscow supports Assad, there can be no talk of a single coalition
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Washington is ready to discuss with Russia its role in the anti-ISIS coalition, provided that Moscow changes its views on the situation in Syria and stops supporting Assad, reports RIA News statement by State Department representative John Kirby.
“Each member of the coalition must have a unified position in relation to the ISIS. If we are talking about Russia, then we do not see that its actions are consistent with the goals of the coalition, that is, the destruction of ISIS, ”Kirby said.
“If you support Assad and provide him with assistance, this does not meet the main tasks of the coalition,” he said.
“If Russia is serious about persecuting ISIS and changes its approach to military operations in Syria, fine. We will be ready to discuss with the Russian Federation what its contribution to the operation in the coalition can be. But so far this has not happened,” says John Kirby.
Earlier, Moscow has repeatedly stated that the fate of Bashar al-Assad should not become the topic of international forums, since the future of the president is an internal affair of the country, and the Syrian people will determine it.
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