Moscow does not understand what Washington meant with its alleged requests for permission to "operate" in Syria's Idlib and therefore needs further clarification on the matter, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th September, 2018) Moscow does not understand what Washington meant with its alleged requests for permission to "operate" in Syria's Idlib and therefore needs further clarification on the matter, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
The US Secretary of State's special adviser on Syria, Jim Jeffrey, said the United States had repeatedly asked Russia for permission to "operate" in Idlib in order to eliminate remaining terrorists, Reuters news agency reported earlier in the day.
"For us, this statement is raising quite a lot of questions, and considering that it was made publicly, we would like to ask, also publicly, what it was about, what Mr. Jeffrey meant. Because we don't really understand this statement," Maria Zakharova said.
The province of Idlib is mostly controlled by armed opposition and terrorists rather than Syrian government forces. Russian officials have recently warned that there was a possibility of a staged chemical weapons attack in the area, aimed at blaming Damascus and provoking Western countries into retaliating against the Syrian government.
