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Zeman to ask Putin if Russia will support resolution on Syria

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Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Beijing on Thursday whether Russia would support a U.N. resolution on Syria, he told CTK yesterday.
Both Zeman and Putin will attend the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in China.
“You know, I am a person who focuses mainly on economic issues. But I will ask President Putin whether Russia would possibly support a resolution of the (U.N.) Security Council on Syria,” Zeman said.
Russia has long been considered an ally of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, while western countries were opposed to it mainly at the beginning of the Syrian conflict.
The Czech Republic is one of a few countries having a permanent diplomatic mission in Damascus, which also provides consular services for the United States.
The Syrian conflict that erupted five years ago has claimed more than 250,000 lives.
Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told CTK on Monday that economic issues will top the agenda of Zeman and Putin’s talks.
The meeting is to start at 14:30 Beijing time (8:30 CEST) on Thursday.
Hynek Kmonicek, head of the foreign department of the Czech Presidential Office, told Czech Television (CT) on Monday that Zeman and Putin will probably discuss Ukraine, Syria and the Middle East and that the struggle against Islamic terrorism will also be taken up.
He said no operation to prevent the influx of refugees through the outer border of the European Union would succeed without the Russian president’s support.
Without his help, the position of Russian diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will not change, Kmonicek said.
Without the UNSC’s mandate, access to Libyan territorial waters, from where migrants start sailing to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, will not be possible, Kmonicek added.
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