Opposition, Ready To Talk With Damascus On Idlib, Being Persecuted By Militants - Bogdanov

Opposition, Ready to Talk With Damascus on Idlib, Being Persecuted by Militants - Bogdanov

The moderate opposition, ready to negotiate with Damascus on the situation in Idlib, is subject to persecution by militants, this complicates the situation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th August, 2018) The moderate opposition, ready to negotiate with Damascus on the situation in Idlib, is subject to persecution by militants, this complicates the situation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Thursday.

"Representatives of the militant opposition are against that the situation in the Idlib zone to be resolved ... Those opposition members, who say that there is a need to negotiate, are subjected to the most brutal methods of mistreatment, up to elimination, from the side of those, who say that they will stand to the bitter end. This complicates the situation," Bogdanov told reporters adding that Moscow maintained contact with the Syrian moderate opposition on the situation in the region.