We Support The Syrian Government, The Only One’s Fighting The Terrorist’s – Putin

Russia will keep providing military-technical assistance to Damascus in fight against Islamic State terrorists, President Vladimir Putin said at a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Tuesday.

“I would like to say that we support the Syrian government in fight against terrorist aggression, we assist it and will keep rendering necessary military-technical assistance to it,” the Russian leader said.

He urged other countries to join Moscow on that. “It is evident that without an active participation of the Syrian authorities and military, without participation of the Syrian army inside the territory, as the military say, in fight against Islamic State, terrorists cannot be expelled from that country and from the region on the whole, the multi-national and multi-confessional Syrian people cannot be protected against destruction, enslavement and barbarity,” he said.

Situation in Afghanistan is degrading as IS influence in that country spreads

According to the Russian president, the situation in Afghanistan is degrading as the influence of the Islamic State in that country spreads.

Terrorists plunge whole peoples into chaos and poverty, he recalled.

Putin believes that efforts by the International Security Assistance Force against narcotic drugs production have failed to yield the expected results.

“You all know the way this threat is growing,” he said.

The president called on the international community to put aside geopolitical ambitions and double standards and to join forces to combat the threat of terrorism.

“We should put geopolitical ambitions aside and abandon the so-called double standards and the policy of using either directly or indirectly certain terrorist groups to achieve one’s own opportunist goals, including the change of governments and regimes undesirable to someone,” Putin said at a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe.

ALSO NEWS FROM SYRIA: Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to cooperate with forces of Syria’s opposition and the need to unite efforts in the struggle against terror is coming to the foreground, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

“Of course, it is also necessary to think about political transformations in that country and we know about President Assad’s readiness to involve the healthy part of the opposition in these processes, in state governance as well,” Putin said at a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

“Today, the need of uniting the efforts in the struggle against terrorism is undoubtedly coming to the foreground,” the Russian leader said.

“It is impossible without this to solve other essential and intensifying problems, including the refugee problem,” the Russian president said.

Putin rejects attempts to blame Russia for Syrian refugees flow

Vladimir Putin has rebuffed the attempts of shifting the blame on Russia for the flow of refugees from Syria to Europe.

“We see attempts today of nearly casting the blame on Russia for this problem, for its emergence,” Putin said. “They allege that the refugees problem emerged due to Russia’s support for the legitimate authorities in Syria,” he said.

The Russian leader stressed that “no one will manage to pass the buck.”

Putin said that the fact is that people are fleeing Syria first of all due to combat actions there “imposed to a significant extent from outside,” and also the atrocity of terrorists. “If Russia had not supported Syria, the situation in the country would have been worse than in Libya and the refugees flow would have been even greater,” he said.

“We did not destabilize the situation in those countries and the whole regions of the world. We do not destroy or did not destroy there state institutions, creating power vacuums, which are immediately filled with terrorists,” he said.

According to the European Commission, since early 2015, more than 400,000 migrants have officially applied for asylum in 28 EU member-states, compared with 280,000 last year. Around 200,000 people have arrived onboard vessels via the Mediterranean Sea.

The migrants issue came to the forefront after the bodies of 71 refugees from Syria were found in a truck in Austria in late August. A total of 2,600 people have died this year as they attempted to flee to Europe.

Experts say the flow of illegal migrants to the EU countries may reach 1 million people by the year-end.