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.

Izvor: Beta

Thursday, 20.07.2017.

14:40

Russian senator welcomes US decision on
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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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