You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.
From Sergei Lavrov
If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.
A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.
I don't believe in ideology in international relations.
If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress.
The Russian Federation and the United States of America, the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, but apart from nuclear-wise, we have a lot in common. We have huge territories, natural resources, technologies, science, education, and of course human capital.
There is nothing in this world which could be not described as requiring more.
We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.
I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.
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