Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again called for a political solution to the Syrian unrest, describing any possible foreign military intervention in in the country as a form of "aggression."
The Russian president also said any foreign military intervention against Syria is against international law and would rattle the entire region.

He made the remarks during a summit of an ex-Soviet security group in the southern Russian port city of Sochi on Monday.

Putin also defended Moscow's refusal to support strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
"The members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are united in their view that the situation around Syria can only be resolved through political means," AFP quoted Putin as saying at the meeting, adding, "Any outside use of force would be a grave violation of international law, which in the language of the UN Charter is referred to as aggression."
CSTO is a Moscow-led military alliance that includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Hundreds of people were killed and scores of others were injured in a chemical attack near Damascus on August 21.

The militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that the deadly attack was carried out by the army.

Damascus, however, has strongly denied the accusation, saying it was a false-flag operation carried out by the Takfiri groups in a bid to draw in foreign military intervention.

Following the chemical attack, US called for punitive military action against Damascus. The Syrian government averted possible US aggression by accepting a Russian plan to put its chemical arsenal under international control and then have them destroyed.

By Press TV

 

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