Pushkov Denied Allegations on Negotiations with Saudi Arabia to Change Moscow Stance on Syria

MOSCOW, (ST)_ Head of the international affairs committee in the Russian Duma Alexei Pushkov denied allegations reported in the New York Times on negotiations between Russia and Saudi Arabia about Moscow’s position on Syria, describing the article published by the newspaper in this regard as “false.”

Russia Today(RT) online quoted  Pushkov as saying in a comment on his Twitter account yesterday, “that there were no negotiations on reducing Saudi oil production for Moscow’s abandoning for the Syrian leadership,” adding “this is a mere lie.”

Pushkov’s comment came in response to the report published by the New York Times Monday night on the attempt made by the Saudi regime, being one of the key countries in the global oil market to “put pressure on Moscow to force it abandon support for Syria”, quoting officials in the Saudi regime as saying that, ” reducing oil production and increasing its prices, avail them to put pressure on Russia. “

However, Russia has always confirmed continued commitment to its principled and firm position towards Syria, based on rejection of foreign interference in its affairs and to resolve the Syrian crisis by political means and through inter- Syrian dialogue.

T. Fateh