Moscow-Sana
Head of the International Relations Committee of the Russian State Duma Leonid Slotsky said that Idlib cannot be allowed to remain as a den of terrorists who target residents in and in neighboring areas and violate the agreement to reduce the escalation.
`` The United States maintains its illegal military presence in the Syrian island region, '' Slotsky said on his Facebook page, although U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intention to withdraw his troops from there, which is today the main obstacle to the restoration of Syrian unity and territorial integrity.
The Russian parliamentarian stressed the need to provide extensive assistance to Syria and to continue the process of political settlement of the crisis, thus paving the return of displaced Syrians to their country.
The heads of state of the guarantors of the course of Astana "Russia, Iran and Turkey" reaffirmed in the final statement of their meeting in Ankara last Monday on their firm commitment to the unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Syria and continue to fight terrorism in it and reject separatist agendas.
For his part, the head of the National Center for Defense Administration in Russia, General Mikhail Mezentsev, said that the presence of the United States and its illegal allies in Syria further complicates the security situation in Syria, stressing that the stability in Syria can not be fully achieved only after the withdrawal of US troops from there and the return of the areas where they are deployed to The authority of the Syrian state.
"The double-standard policy of the United States and its allies gives the full right to raise the issue of its illegal actions in the territory of a sovereign Syrian state for immediate consideration by the UN Security Council," Mezentsev said in press statements today.
He called on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to place the issue on the agenda of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.