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![Putin with President of Syria Bashar al-Assad in Moscow on 21 October 2015 [PPIO]](http://thebricspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/xZB12Vdp1xjCIkOKcJpbLfgMl3dmAu2p.jpg)
Putin with President of Syria Bashar al-Assad in Moscow on 21 October 2015 [PPIO]
“We would do this, of course, in close contact with the other global powers and with the countries in the region that want to see a peaceful settlement to this conflict,” Putin added.
“Our position is that positive results in military operations will lay the base for then working out a long-term settlement based on a political process that involves all political forces, ethnic and religious groups,” Putin told Assad.
Western countries along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey are also engaged in a parallel bombing campaign in Syria but differ with Moscow on the future of Syrian President Assad.
Russia and the US, however, reached an agreement to avoid clashes in the skies in Syria, earlier on Tuesday.
Russia began air strikes in Syria on September 30 to thwart terrorist forces that include the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra.
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said last week that the US continues to maintain that Russia’s strategy in Syria is “wrongheaded and strategically short-sighted.”
Meanwhile, Putin on Wednesday, reasserted Russia’s position that “ultimately, it is the Syrian people alone who must have the deciding voice here”.
The United States, France and Britain say the Russian air strikes are aimed at propping up Assad after recent rebel advances. “They are backing the butcher Assad, which is a terrible mistake, for them and the world,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said earlier this month.
TBP and Agencies
