Moscow-Sana
The Russian researcher Islam Beck Moslev, head of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry that the United States is trying through its control of some oil fields in northeastern Syria to obtain political and economic gains.
"The Americans have declared control of the oil fields in eastern Syria under the pretext of protecting them from terrorists, but the aim is to obtain economic and political spoils," Moslev said in an interview with a Sana correspondent in Moscow.
The Russian Defense Ministry published late last month a map of the oil fields in Syria and pictures of satellites taken last September showing the convoys of tankers transporting oil out of Syria under the guard of US military personnel and elements of private US military companies and on the current meetings of the expanded committee to discuss the Constitution in Geneva He pointed out that the launch of these meetings paves the way for a political solution to the crisis in Syria to preserve the unity and integrity of its territory, stressing that the United States of America is trying to hinder the work of the Committee to ensure the continuation of the crisis in the country.
The work of the Constitution Discussion Committee began in Geneva yesterday with the participation of the 150 members representing the delegation supported by the Syrian government and the delegation of other parties and the civil society delegation by 50 members for each delegation.
In a similar interview, Konstantin Troitsev, a senior researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Moscow's Oriental Institute, said the United States was looting Syrian oil for money.
On the other hand, Troitsev stressed that the Syrian government reads the objective reality accurately and maintains its national interests firmly in its relations with its friends who respect such positions.