Russian senator welcomes US decision on "Syria moderates"
The decision to shut down a CIA program to equip and train moderate opposition in Syria opens new opportunities for Russian-US cooperation in war on terror.
Thursday, 20.07.2017.
14:40
Russian senator welcomes US decision on "Syria moderates"
"Certainly, this is the long-awaited and excellent news. No doubt, such a turn creates new opportunities for Russian-US cooperation in anti-terror in that country," he said.Kosachev, who heads the Russian Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee, added that Washington "accuses Russia of meddling in the Syrian conflict while it has a program on equipping and military training the opposition in a sovereign country with the goal of toppling the Assad regime."
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday decided to discontinue CIA’s multi-year covert program to arm and train the so-called moderate opposition in Syria fighting against government forces, TASS reported.
Beta said that this was something that Moscow has been asking of the US for a long time.
The Washington Post, which first reported the news, said, citing US officials, that Trump's decision was aimed at finding ways to cooperate with Russia.
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