CSTO opposes military action as a way to settle crisis in Syria – Putin

 The Collective Security Treaty Organization’s members have passed a statement on the situation in Syria at the summit in Sochi. They underlined the necessity of peaceful settlement and unacceptability of the outside aggression, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said, reports VoR’s Polina Chernitsa.

 “The CSTO countries are unanimous in their opinion that the situation in Syria should be settled peacefully and any outside military action would be a severe violation of international law or as the UN charter calls it – aggression,” the Russian leader stressed.

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