Таджикистан: Путин призова към световна подкрепа спрямо сирийското правителство

Russian President Vladimir Putin called on governments around the world to support the government of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad in the battle against the Islamic State (ISIS, IS, ISIS) during a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CST) summit in Dushanbe, Tuesday. "I would like to say that we support the government of Syria in the confrontation against terrorist aggression, and we provide and will provide it with the necessary military and technical assistance and we call other countries to join us," the Russian president said. "Basic common sense and responsibility for global and regional security requires the international community to make joint efforts against this threat," Putin stated, adding that "We must put aside geopolitical ambitions, abandon the so-called double standards, the policy of direct or indirect use of certain terrorist groups for opportunistic purposes, including changes of government and regimes disliked by someone." Giving reasons for his call to support the Syrian government, Putin said that is was "impossible to expel the terrorists from this country and the whole region without the active participation of the Syrian authorities and military, without the Syrian army presence, as the military saying goes, 'on the ground.'"