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SOCHI, October 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he is convinced that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready for dialogue with the opposition.
“The Syrian conflict was caused by not only the fight against militants and terrorist aggression, although it is evident and the terrorists just made use of difficulties in Syria. It is necessary to separate the terrorist threat from domestic political problems,” Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
He said “the Syrian leadership should establish working contacts with those opposition forces that are ready for dialogue.”
“As I understood from my conversation with President Assad the day before yesterday, he is ready for such a dialogue,” Putin said.
According to the Russian leader, Bashar al-Assad during their talks in Moscow told him that he would be positive if the Russian Federation supported the armed opposition in Syria ready to fight terrorists …. http://tass.ru