“I’m confident that the Chinese leadership being aware of the totality of these matters, including the part of their population who are Uyghurs, will find the necessary solution to make sure that the situation remains stable and benefits the entire multi-million-strong Chinese people, including its Uyghur part,” he said.
– Russia insists on distributing humanitarian aid in Syria through ‘central government’
Russia insists that humanitarian aid should be given “just as it should be done in the entire world,” “as it is provided for in the provisions of international humanitarian law” — through the central government, said Putin.
This along with attacks from some border crossings in Syria are reasons why Russia intends to close them for humanitarian convoys, he said.
“If there are grounds to believe that the central government of Syria will plunder something, well, set up observers on the part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent to oversee everything.
“I don’t think that anybody in the Syrian government is interested in stealing some part of this humanitarian assistance. It just needs to be done through the central government. And in this sense, we support President [Bashar al-] Assad because a different mode of behavior would be undermining the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic. And that’s all,” he said.
Putin added that in the Idlib zone, Turkish troops “effectively control” the border between Turkey and Syria, and “convoys cross the border without any restrictions on their numbers in both directions.”
Source: Anadolu Agency
