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The defense minister in the interim government of Syria, Murhaf Abu Qasra, discussed a number of common military issues with his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov, the Syrian Defense Ministry announced.
Abu Qasra arrived in Moscow on July 31 as part of a delegation led by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. This is the first official visit by representatives of the new Syrian government to Russia.
In a statement, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said that Abu Qasra was accompanied at the meeting by Shaibani and the head of the General Intelligence Directorate Hussein Salama.
“During the meeting, they discussed a number of common military issues that serve the interests of Syrian-Russian relations,” the ministry added.
A separate statement released by the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the two sides “discussed prospects of cooperation between the defence departments and the situation in the Middle East.”
Russia maintains two military installations on the Syrian coast, which is controlled by the government: the Khemimim Air Base near the city of Jableh and a naval base in the port of Tartus. Following the fall of the Assad regime last December, the government showed openness to keeping both bases open.
While in Moscow, Shaibani held a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The Syrian Foreign Ministry described the meeting as “historic”, saying in a statement that it ushered a new phase of political and military understanding between the two countries.
“Foreign Minister Al-Shaibani affirmed Syria’s commitment to improving relations with Russia on new foundations that take into account the interests of the Syrian people and open up prospects for a balanced partnership,” the ministry said.
“The meeting represents a strong political indicator of the beginning of a process to restore Syrian-Russian relations, enhancing regional balance and empowering the Syrian state,” it added.
While Russian bases in Syria continue to operate as before, the two sides have not yet announced an agreement on their future.
Still, Syria appears to be very interested in military cooperation with Russia. Last April, interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa, who is expected to attend a Russian-Arab summit in Moscow next October, said that Russia had supplied the Syrian military for decades, implying that his country will not abandon its historic military ties with Russia.
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inhuman isis terrorist animals can only kiss the asses of bigger countries and israel lol. meanwhile, no matter how deep their tongue is in various anuses, they don’t stop slaughtering civilians from minorities like shia, alawite, christians, druze…
i understand russia attempting dialogue . but syria is basically ran by the greater israel pirate cabal . this cabal needs syria to invade iran as planned . this invasion has been in the works for decades
i don’t understand it.
it’s zionel.by the way, what nebuchadnezzar ii has destroyed was called judah, zionelis are like himmler, can’t prove nothing at all.
russian shitstains stabbed assad in the back…heheheh
it was uncle sams sanctions and illegal occupation of syrian oil fields that killed syria.
bozo the clown is pretty angry that russia is winning (fox news told him to be angry), so he tries with all his might (wich is difficult when you have a tiny impotent p*nis) to annoy people.
yes, bozo the clown is retarded.
yep. should have blew the fields. the thieving us scum would have left
easily bribed syrian arabs didn’t help either. i guess they’re learning the hard way.
you are a solipsist hermaphrodite, go to berkeley, boy, it’s in california, one of this days once again mexico.
it won’t look good if the terrorist head chopper leader is allowed on russian soil.
syria needs russian petrol, gas, agriculture fertilizers for olive ( urea, amoniac, boro) beside chemicas ( cupper, pyretrines), wheat, weapons ( air defense)…
what is this shit? there is no syrian government just a gang of sectarian thugs.
well… putin now tolerates al qaeda! what a low!
syria wants to invade lebanon.
thats why syria visits moscow.
syria wants tanks and weapons for lebanon war from russia.
the brics are winning the attriction war because the global occident = to zionel’s ss epstein. gueisha trump can do all with all those other global occidental gueishas, no one cares, and zionelis, run, run.
friends of chabad friends of israel . of course this happened