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Russia would consider extending airstrikes to Iraq if requested
by Joseph Earnest October 6, 2015
Newscast Media MOSCOW—Russia will consider extending its airstrikes against militants in Syria to Iraq if it receives such a request from Baghdad, the RIA news agency quoted the head of the country's upper chamber of parliament as saying on Tuesday.
The speaker, Valentina Matviyenko, said Russia had so far not received such a request from the Iraqi government.
“In
case of an official address from Iraq to the Russian Federation, the
leaders of our country would study the political and military expediency
of our Air Force’s participation in an air operation. Presently we have
not received such an address,” Matviyenko told reporters on Tuesday
during an official visit to Jordan. She also asked the press “to stop
reading tea leaves” before actual events take place.
“I want to
emphasize that Russia has no other political objectives and no interests
other than the defeat of ISIS [formerly ISIS/ISIL] and that differs us
from other nations that participate in another coalition,” Interfax news
agency quoted Matviyenko as saying at a meeting with the head of the
Jordanian Senate, President Abdur-Ra’uf Rawabdeh.
She also said
that Russian authorities understood the necessity of political reforms
in Syria, but the final decision on the nature of these reforms and
future head of the Syrian state must be made by Syrian people without
any external pressure or direct interference of foreign nations.
During the meeting with her Jordanian colleague, Matviyenko stated that Russia was calling upon all states that see the Islamic State as a threat to join the information center in Baghdad used by Russian, Iraqi, Syrian and Iranian security specialists and military. She added that Russia was ready for other forms of cooperation with all nations that share the common goal of fighting international terrorism. Add Comments>>
Source: Al Manar TV News
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