No compromise with US over fate of Syria President Assad - senior Russian diplomat — The main demand of US side in Syria talks – the ousting of President Bashar Assad – is absolutely unacceptable for Russia as it destroys the prospects of a political settlement, Russia’s deputy foreign minister says. “We will never agree with our colleagues in Washington, as well as in a number of other capitals, who maintain that the whole task should be tuned by the well-known phrase reading ‘Assad must leave’ : RT Russian politics

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