'It's
important to save Syria' Dmitry Peskov - BBC News
Vladimir
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave an exclusive interview to BBC
Hardtalk just a few hours ago. He told the BBC's Stephen Sackur that
Russia's motives were not just to prop up the Assad regime.
It’s
Official: Obama Rejects Fighting Terrorism in Syria
Stephen
Lendman
25
October, 2015
His
actions say it all. In over a year of bombing, US warplanes struck
zero Syrian and Iraqi terrorist targets – none. It’s unsurprising
he rejected Putin’s offer to cooperate in fighting ISIS and other
terrorist groups.
On
Saturday, Sergey Lavrov said the following:
We are ready to back the patriotic opposition, including the so-called Free Syrian Army, with our air support (in jointly fighting ISIS and other terrorist groups).
However, Washington is refusing to inform us of the locations of the terrorists and where the opposition is based. The most important thing for us is to find people who will be true representatives of the armed groups who will confront terrorism among other things (serving the interests of Syrian people, not foreign powers).
Russia
is “the only country…support(ing) all political forces in Syria
(concerned about maintaining its sovereignty). Foreign players”
must have no says about internal politics, decisions for Syrians
alone.
We have to make them choose their own process for how their country should live on and protect the interests of every confessional, ethnic or political group.
“Of
course, this work should be done in preparation for elections, both
parliamentary and presidential” – free from foreign interference.
Putin
stressed similar sentiments, saying Russia’s intervention “will
not solve all problems, but it will create conditions for the main
thing – a beginning of a political process to encompass all healthy
patriotic forces of the Syrian society,” concerned about a future
free from foreign interference and domination.
Putin
and other Russian officials reject Washington’s demand for Assad to
go. That’s for Syrians alone to decide. Assad’s red carpet
welcome in Moscow shows Moscow’s solidarity with Syria against the
scourge of terrorism, along with directly challenging Washington
destructive imperial agenda.
Putin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov made similar comments on BBC’s Hardtalk
program, saying:
Unfortunately all our ‘partners’ (sic) have failed up to now to identify a serious opposition that has no links to terror, no links with extremist organizations, no links with ISIL, Al Qaeda and others.
He
politely stopped short of explaining reality on the ground.
US-recruited, funded, armed, trained and directed ISIS and other
terrorist groups alone are fighting Syria’s government.
No
moderates exist. The so-called Free Syrian Army is more myth than
reality – terrorists alone fighting Assad, imported from scores of
countries, non-Syrians, wanting the nation’s sovereignty destroyed,
serving their own interests and Washington’s, seeking unchallenged
regional control.
Peskov
stressed the importance of preserving Syria’s “territorial and
political integrity, not to let the whole region, including the
countries that are bordering with Syria, go into a nightmare of
collapse and hegemony of terror.”
Russia
wants Syria saved “from terrorists and extremist organizations.”
It wants their scourge kept from spreading. It intervened because
Washington failed to fight terrorism as promised. It’s part of the
problem, not the solution.
Media
reports about Russia joining forces with Syrian opposition groups
against Assad are false. Lavrov was clear and unequivocal saying
Moscow supports all Syrian elements against terrorism, a scourge
vital to contain and defeat.
After
meeting with his Russian, Turkish, and Saudi counterparts in Vienna,
John Kerry lied claiming Washington supports “a global effort of
all people of conscience, and nations, to do everything possible to
bring (war in Syria) to a close.”
Obama
didn’t wage it preemptively in 2011 to quit. US policy
fundamentally opposes peace and stability. Endless violence and chaos
serve its imperial agenda. An atmosphere of calm and lawfulness
defeat it.
Kerry’s
sole aim is furthering America’s hegemonic aims, endless wars of
aggression its main strategy, millions of lost lives a small price to
pay. Conquest and domination alone matter, an agenda reflecting pure vil.
The
choice for freedom-loving people everywhere is clear. Defeating this
monster is top priority. End its scourge or it’ll end us.
His
new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in
Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
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