Kosachev: Washington’s reinforcement of its presence in Syria’s oilfields violates Syria’s sovereignty

On November 6, the Russian Council of the Russian Federation’s Committee on International Affairs’ Chairman Konstantin Kosachev said that the strengthening of the United States’ forces in the areas of oil fields in Syria violates Syrian sovereignty.

“Washington argues that the aim of these plans is to prevent terrorists from access to Syrian oil fields. But the real reason is a special investment for these fields regardless of the fact that Syrian sovereignty is violated in this way. It doesn’t matter to the West very much,” Kosachev said on his Facebook page.

Kosachev warned that the Syrian or Russian forces in the region could be occasional is attacked, even though their presence, unlike the Americans, is legitimate.

“A military attack on the representatives of the legitimate authorities in their legitimate territory would be an explicit aggression,” Kosachev said. “The responsibility for this will be entirely on the US military, which is unnecessary there both legally and politically.”

For his part, First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma Alexander Shirin said:

“The US plans to loot the Syrian oil fields similar to the actions of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who occupied other countries with a similar goal.”

“The US position today is no different from that of Adolf Hitler, who seized and occupied the lands of others in order to access its raw resources,” Shirin said to the RIA Novosti News Agency.

He called on the US administration to get its troops out of Syrian territory.

O. al-Mohammad