Moscow severely denounces Pompeo’s provocative visit to Israeli settlements in occupied Golan

Moscow (ST): Russia severely denounced US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to the Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan, referring that it’s a provocative act.

Sputnik News Agency quoted Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, as saying during a meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Syria that “We incessantly call for preserving Syria’s unity and respecting its sovereignty and territorial integrity and the desertion of plots to divide and extend the crisis in the country, adding that the visit which was paid by a senior US official is a provocation.

He stressed that Moscow would not allow to change the name of terrorists in a way that allows some Western states to fund terrorism, noting that the Syrian Arab army continued to confront the attacks launched by sleeping terrorist cells.

Nebenzia pointed out that Idleb is still a hotbed of instability, particularly with the presence of” Tahrir al-Sham” terrorists, affirming that efforts to combat terrorism will continue despite the attempts of Western officials to defend the terrorists through calling for an agreement with them on a ceasefire. 

Over the past ten years, the US has been supporting terrorist organizations with money and arms and called it moderate opposition.

K.Q.