The Russian base in Syria is coming back. The fresh Authorities Set a Condition

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Abu Kasra noted that Russia's attitude towards the fresh Syrian authorities, whose troops in December overturned president Bashar al-Assad's regime, an ally of the Kremlin, "has improved significantly". Until recently, the rebels who now sit in the seats of ministers were bombarded by Russian aviation,” recalled the U.S. Journal. “ There are no permanent enemies in politics,” said Abu Kasra.

The current minister has fought against Assad troops since 2013. The Syrian civilian War has been fought since 2011 between the faithful forces of Asad and the groups of the armed opposition. Moscow has provided Damascus with decisive military assistance since 2015.

But now, as the U.S. paper noted, the Russian authorities can offer the fresh Syrian government something that he very much wants: the overthrown president who fled to Russia little than 2 months ago.

“Asad, erstwhile leaving the country, did not think that we would be able to scope an agreement with Russia,” said Abu Kasra. “ But possibly relations will be restored to service the interests of Syria and then Russia,” he added.

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The subject of Assad extradition is not

Abu Kasra did not want to explicitly confirm the information that the interim Syrian president Ahmad asz-Szar, who met with a delegation of the Russian MFA in January, demanded the extradition of Assad. However, he said that during the gathering the question of holding the erstwhile president accountable was raised.

"Washington Post" recalled that after a gathering between the Russians and the fresh Syrian leader, the Moscow delegation besides omitted the subject of Assad's extradition. “We expressed our gratitude for the fact that our citizens and facilities did not endure losses as a consequence of events in fresh weeks,” said Mikhail Bogdanov, head of the Russian delegation, adding that the agreement to keep Russian forces in Syria “requires additional negotiations.”

For the time being, Russia, which had a number of facilities in Syria, withdrew military personnel and equipment from all of them but for 2 bases: in Tartus (marine base) and Latakia (airbase), he recalled ‘WaPo’.

The government in Damascus besides negotiates the issue of American and Turkish military presence in Syria. Abu Kasra stated that fresh military agreements with Ankara could include the simplification or relocation of Turkish soldiers.

The issue of maintaining U.S. military presence in northeastern Syria is inactive “the subject of negotiations,” said the Syrian MFA chief. U.S. troops entered Syria in 2015 as part of the fight against the terrorist muslim State (IS) — a group that, utilizing chaos in the region, attempted to build a fundamentalist state governed by the sharijat. The U.S. supported the Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the IS commanded by the Kurds. There are inactive about 2,000 American soldiers in Syria.

— Everyone was waiting for Trump to come to power,” said Abu Kasra about talks with the US. “This substance between the US administration and the fresh Syrian government takes time,” said the Minister about the negotiations.

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