Miqdad: The Syrian-Russian coordination is strategic and continuous, and its results will appear in various fields

Damascus-SANA

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Faisal Miqdad, affirmed that the relations between Syria and Russia are strategic, and coordination between them is continuing, and its results will appear in various fields, stressing that the battle that the two countries are waging for security and stability in the region and the world is one.

Al-Miqdad said in an interview with Al-Suriah and Al-Ikhbariya channels tonight: My last visit to Moscow was with the aim of strengthening the strategic relations between the two countries, and these relations are constantly developing because each country believes in the correctness of the other country’s positions and to prove that their policies help improve conditions in the region and the world, pointing out that coordination between Syria and Russia is continuing. Its results will appear in various fields, and that talking about trade-offs is Western attempts to discredit the Syrian-Russian relations, as Syria is a sovereign state and cannot be in any deal or barter.

Miqdad explained that the aim of the visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Syria is to send a message to the whole world that Russia and Syria are strong, and that the battle that the two countries are waging for security and stability all over the world is one. Whoever is trying to insult Russia and Syria, we are together in one battle to ensure security and stability in the Middle East and Europe.

Miqdad indicated that NATO has not implemented its pledges not to expand to the east, and its practices threaten the Russian national security, pointing out that what the West is currently doing against Russia in terms of hostile practices and campaigns aimed at offending it is similar to what it did against Syria during the terrorist war.

Miqdad affirmed Syria's support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognize the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk republics from Ukraine.

Miqdad reiterated that the American presence in northeastern Syria is an occupation in every sense of the word, international law and the Charter of the United Nations unambiguously show that because this presence was not made at the request of the concerned country, and therefore the American occupation forces must leave the Syrian territories.

Miqdad pointed out that the main objective of the American presence in Syria is to protect terrorist organizations in the Al-Tanf region and separatist militias in the Syrian Jazira, indicating that Washington continues to invest in terrorism by transferring its terrorists from Syria to other regions in the world to implement its political agendas, as it has transferred hundreds of terrorists to Afghanistan and other countries. Now, there is talk of transferring many of these terrorists to a number of African countries, and continues to detain thousands of displaced persons in the Rukban camp, preventing their return to their homes, villages and towns.

Al-Miqdad stressed that the Turkish regime continues to support terrorist organizations in Syria in flagrant violation of the Astana understandings, and everyone recently followed the United States’ announcement that it had killed the second leader of the terrorist organization “ISIS” on the lands occupied by the Turkish regime, after it had killed the first leader a few meters away from the place where it was killed. The second claimant, pointing out that the false Western media ignored the fact that the terrorists were killed on lands occupied by the Turkish regime.

Al-Miqdad stressed Syria's keenness to strengthen its relations with Arab countries and the return of joint Arab action for the benefit of the Arab peoples. We stand by each other in a fateful battle in which the future of the world will be determined.

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