It became aware of the meeting of the Russian and Syrian presidents in Sochi. known, the first thing that Bashar al-Assad congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election as President after the elections 18 Martha. In turn, Vladimir Putin congratulated Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian people all with the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Russian President:
I also want to congratulate you on the great Syrian government army successes in the fight against terrorist groups. thanks to the efforts, who made your soldiers recently, We made very important steps to further strengthen the legal authority. Terrorists lay down their arms at key points in Syria, which allowed Syria to restore infrastructure, push them, virtually stop their operation near the Syrian capital.
Vladimir Putin noted, in Syria, the conditions for the start of a comprehensive political process.
Words Assad lead the Kremlin press service:
stability is improved, and all this opens the door to a political process, which we began some time ago. I have always said and now repeat it again, we are always encouraged to support the political process, which must go hand in hand with the fight against terrorism.
We know, it will not be easy, because there are countries, who do not want, to Syria returned to stability. However, we are together with you and other friends and partners will continue to firmly move forward in the peace process towards the achievement of peace. Today's meeting gives us a good opportunity to develop common positions for the upcoming period is, with regard to the negotiations in Astana and in Sochi.
Once again, thank you. I would like to separately thank the Russian Armed Forces, especially Aerospace forces, which played a very important role in the, that the fight against terrorism in the last period.
About the details of the conversation between the two presidents is not reported. Aware of, that the Syrian leader, in his own words, I am ready to intensify the political process in the SAR - with inclusion of any and all ethnic and religious groups, for which the first priority remains the world in Syria and its territorial integrity.
