Moscow, SANA_\u00a0 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday renewed that the presence of US troops in Syria is illegal, considering \u00a0the announcement of their withdrawal is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n
During a joint press conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in Moscow , Lavrov commented on the U.S. announcement it will withdraw its troops from Syria, as saying: \u201ctheir withdrawal is a step in the right direction”.<\/p>\n
Lavrov says he wants to see implementation, as well as the hows and whys. ”\u00a0 It is necessary to wait for what will happen after this announcement. As I know, there are many questions within the United States about this.”<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Washington had begun to pull troops out of Syria.<\/p>\n
Lavrov expressed his country’s concern over attempts to undermine and foil the bases and \u00a0international references in the settlement of the Palestinian issue, including \u00a0the United Nations binding resolutions.<\/p>\n
Lavrov discusses situation in Syria with Sudanese Counterpart<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Sudanese counterpart al Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed have discussed the situation in Syria during a telephone conversation.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the talks, the parties exchanged views on regional issues with a focus on the settlement of the crisis in Syria,\u201d the Russian Foreign Ministry said in statement on Friday.<\/p>\n Bolstering political, economic and trade cooperation between Russia and Sudan was also discussed.<\/p>\n Shaza \/ Gh.A.Hassoun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moscow, SANA_\u00a0 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday renewed that the presence of US troops in Syria is illegal, considering \u00a0the announcement of their withdrawal is a step in the right direction. During a joint press conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in Moscow , Lavrov commented on the U.S. announcement it will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[14963,738,15897,3410,7064,2338],"class_list":["post-154018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-illegal","tag-lavrov","tag-presence","tag-syria","tag-troops","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}