Russia’s Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told reporters that the situation surrounding the militant-controlled Syrian province of Idlib will be one of the main items on the agenda at the talks between the Russian, Turkish and Iranian presidents in Tehran later this week.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov said that the unmanned aerial vehicles launched by terrorists in Idlib pose a danger to Russia’s bases in Syria. “This represents a significant threat to our temporary bases, and the Russian president has spoken about this. It is from [Idlib] that various unmanned aerial vehicles are being sent which pose a threat to our temporary bases,” he said.
According to Peskov, Idlib today serves as a ‘hotbed of terrorism’ destabilizing the situation in Syria.
“The situation in Idlib continues to be a subject of particular concern to Moscow, Damascus, in Ankara, and in Tehran. The fact is that there is a hotbed of terrorism there, a fairly large group of terrorists has settled there. Of course, this leads to a general destabilization of the situation. This undermines attempts to bring the situation to the track of political and diplomatic regulation,” Peskov told reporters.
The presidential spokesman also said that the situation in Idlib would be “one of the main issues on the agenda” at the upcoming trilateral peace talks in Tehran on September 7 between the Russian, Turkish and Iranian presidents, aimed at bringing the Syrian conflict to an end.
Asked to comment on reports in Western media that Russian military aircraft allegedly struck militant positions in Idlib on Tuesday, Peskov referred reporters to the Russian Ministry of Defense, saying he does not have operational information about the situation at the moment.
Source: Sputnik
