Russia may change stance on Syria if Assad ‘cheats’ - Kremlin
Moscow could change its position on Syria if it is discovered that Damascus is “cheating”, Kremlin administration chief Sergey Ivanov said on Saturday.
“I’m talking now theoretically and hypothetically, but if Russia becomes sure that [President] Assad, for example, is cheating, we might change our position. But so far we don’t have such evidence,” Ivanov said.
As the UN Security Council prepares a resolution that would see the implementation of a plan to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, the chief of the Kremlin administration called on UNSC members to base the resolution “on a strategic long-term vision, not momentary concerns”.
Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies 'Global Strategic Review' conference in Stockholm, Ivanov also questioned how the world would respond if it turns out that both Damascus and the Syrian opposition had deployed chemical weapons.
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