At least 600 Russians and Europeans fighting alongside Syrian opposition – Putin
Published time: June 21, 2013 12:34
Edited time: June 21, 2013 14:06
At least 600 Russians and Europeans are fighting alongside the rebels battling the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “It is known that there are at least 600 people from Russia and Europe fighting along with opposition forces in Syria,” Putin said during the Forum’s plenary session. Putin reiterated that weapon supplies to the Syrian rebels violate international law, and threaten to further destabilize the war-torn state. "Why supply weapons to militant forces in Syria when we are not sure of the composition of these groups?” he said, adding that it remains unclear where these arms will end up. "If the United States ... recognizes one of the key Syrian opposition organizations, al-Nusra, as terrorist ... how can one deliver arms to those opposition members?" Putin said. "Where will (those weapons) end up? What role will they play?" Russia’s Foreign Ministry has also criticized the supply of arms to the rebels in separate remarks to AP and Bloomberg: “The problem is that the weapons are coming to the region anyway,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “And if you take, you know, stock of what is being used by the opposition you would find a lot of arms shipped by the West, including the US, to the Gulf countries and to other countries in the region,” he said. “So, this smuggling continues and this is very dangerous. Because the leading opposition force on the ground is very extremist.”
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Putin: Crisis in Syria should be resolved by diplomatic and political methods
Jun 17, 2013 – LONDON – (SANA – H. Sabbagh)– Russian President Vladimir Putin said that resolving the crisis in Syria can only be done through diplomatic and political methods and by having all sides sit at the dialogue table, calling for all sides to exert joint efforts to achieve this goal.
In a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron held on Sunday, Putin said that Russia’s viewpoints regarding the crisis in Syria differ from those of Britain’s.
Putin addressed Cameron on the issue of importing weapons, saying “I believe that there are people in the Syrian opposition that not only murder people, but also eat their internal organs… do you want to support those people, and what does this policy have to do with human values?”
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