Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad?
ADEL AL-JUBEIRThat would be a different story. But I don’t think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
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We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.
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But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them.
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To write a constitution and to open the way for elections.
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If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria – then this will open the door for the beginning of the political transition process.
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We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time.
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Twenty million Russians are Muslims.
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It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them
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We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.
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Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one.
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The country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.
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But I don’t believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.
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Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
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I don’t believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East.
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That has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement.
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The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted.
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