Alwaght-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says coordination with Russia was crucial in Syria’s war on terrorism.
President al-Assad made the remarks on Tuesday in Damascus when he received Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the accompanying delegation.
Talks during the meeting dealt with the latest developments of war on terrorism in Syria.
President al-Assad affirmed that the Russian-Syrian joint work and the high level coordination in all fields, on top, in the military and political domains, were one of the decisive factors of Syria’s steadfastness in the face of terrorism and the achievements gained against ISIS, al-Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations.
The Syrian president said that some countries and powers fight terrorism through the statements of their officials only, while they support it and work with it in reality, and they go ahead in offering protection to it in a number of areas, and by these policies, they were the reason behind the big number of civilian causalities and contributed to spreading terrorism and prevailing it in other areas.
Shoigu, for his part, stressed that his country is going ahead in combating terrorism along with the Syrian Arab army, adding “Russia will continue offering all forms of possible support to the Syrian people to complete liberation of all Syrian territories and preserve the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Syria.”
The talks also tackled the situation in Idleb and East of Euphrates regions.
Both sides had identical viewpoints were identical on the necessity of continuing the joint work to put suitable solutions to restore security and stability to those regions and adopt probable procedures to not allowing the hostile countries of Syrian people to achieve, through their policies and practices in the two regions, what they have failed to do during the years of crisis.
Russian jets have been carrying out air raids against targets belonging to the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group and those of other terror outfits inside Syria at the Damascus government’s formal request since September 2015. The airstrikes have helped Syrian forces in defeating the terrorists, who had been wreaking havoc in the Arab country since 2011.
