| If US Can’t
or Won’t Fight Terrorists, They Should ‘Stop Getting in
the Way’: Russian MoD
By al Manar
November 27,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "" - The Russian Defense
Ministry commented on the US State Department’s calls
not to help tankers shipping fuel to the Russian
Aerospace Forces in Syria. If Washington cannot or does
not want to fight terrorists, it should not get in the
way, the ministry’s spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov
said Thursday.
US State
Department spokesman Mark Toner urged other countries
not to provide support for Russian tankers shipping fuel
to the Russian aviation group in Syria. “Such
statements, unfortunately, only confirm our earlier
estimates that fighting terrorism in Syria has never
been on the outgoing administration’s agenda,”
Konashenkov said.
Washington had
impeded negotiations, did not separate terrorists and
opposition and now openly called on other countries to
hamper Moscow’s anti-terrorism fight in Syria “to
somehow downplay the failures of US policies in the
country since 2014”, the spokesman said.
Konashenkov
said that the US-led coalition can only dream of a
success comparable to the one Russia has achieved for a
year: over 2,000 settlements have joined ceasefire, 86
armed groups have stopped fighting and hundreds of
thousands of Syrians have returned to peaceful life to
rebuild the country. “So if you cannot or do not want to
fight ISIL and al-Nusra Front — do not get in the way,
at least. Our air group is Syria is sufficiently
equipped to fight international terrorism in this
region,” he said.
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