According to the chief of Russia’s General Staff, injured terrorists undergo treatment and rehabilitation at Turkish hospitals

MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. Ankara’s continuing weapons supplies to terrorists in Syria cause considerable negative effects on the reconciliation process, chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov has said.

"The supplies of weapons, ammunition and medicines to terrorists is one of the destabilizing factors that cause considerable negative effects on the reconciliation process," Gerasimov said. "Injured terrorists undergo treatment and rehabilitation at Turkish hospitals," he told the 5th Moscow conference on international security on Wednesday. Gerasimov recalled that the Russian center for reconciliation at the Hmeimim base was gathering evidence about all breeches of truce and delivering humanitarian aid to civilians despite the continuing activity of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra (both organizations are outlawed in Russia). "The center’s activity is focused on the promotion of ceasefire via a dialogue between the Syrian authorities and the constructive opposition," Gerasimov said. He recalled that Russia proceeded from the assumption that the future of Syria, its political system and who is to be elected to the supreme bodies of power will be decided only by the Syrian people themselves. "Concerted action can and must preserve Syria as an integral secular state, which it had been before 2011," Gerasimov said. International coalition’s actions in Syria violate international law

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The official also stressed that the international coalition acting in Syria violates "all canons" of international law, while the Russian military stay in in the Syrian territory on legal grounds. "Our units are in Syria on legal grounds at the request of the government of a sovereign state, which cannot be said about the international coalition that de jure violates all canons of international law," Gerasimov said at the 5th Moscow International Security Conference. According to him, the Russian forces "participate only in the fight against terrorism, their actions have nothing to do with military interference in the affairs of another state or support for one of religious groups." Situation in Syria was destabilized by tried and tested methods Gerasimov said the process of destabilization and attempts to overthrow the legitimate government in Syria was underway by the tried and tested methods. "First, protest actions were organized there with the active informational support from the outside, then armed attacks on representatives of public authorities and law enforcement agencies started and after that - a massive attack by terrorist groups, supported by the players behind the scenes began," Gerasimov said.

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