The Pentagon chief spoke out against cooperation with Russia in Syria
Ashton Carter said that Moscow is helping Damascus, and that “only further fuelling the Syrian civil war.”
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WASHINGTON, November 11. /Offset. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. Secretary of defense Ashton Carter in an interview with CBS opposed the cooperation with Russia in Syria as long as Moscow “will not start to do the right thing”.
“As for Syria, the Russians, you remember, said that they intend to fight terrorism and help to remove the (President Bashar al -) Assad (from the government). None of this they did not do” — said the Pentagon chief, adding that Moscow, by contrast, helps to Damascus.
“This, in turn, only further fuelling the Syrian civil war. So the Russians are there in the completely opposite direction,” he argued.
Therefore, continued Carter, the United States could work with Russia.
“I did not support this and I would not recommend the President to unite or to cooperate with the Russians, until they begin to do the right thing,” said the defense Minister.
“They don’t do what we need”, — he said answering the question of the channel the possibility of the beginning of cooperation with Russia in the near future.
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Earlier, the US announced the suspension of bilateral cooperation with Moscow on the Syrian crisis, expressing the willingness to work in a multilateral format. In the Kremlin, in turn, noted that the agreement on the settlement of the conflict in Syria has not been implemented due to the inability of Washington and its allies to fulfill the key position is to dissociate the “moderate” opposition from terrorist groups.
“There are born in the throes of understanding which, unfortunately, was not realized through no fault of the Russian side, — said on Thursday to journalists the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. — Still, the US and other partners of Washington was unable to fulfill the basic obligation to alienate so-called moderate opposition, the existence of which is now a huge doubt from the terrorist groups. Until then, until it is done, to come to some political settlement is impossible, although, of course, experts continue to work”.