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The Federation Council is currently considering the use of the Russian Armed Forces abroad. This was the beginning of the plenary session of the upper house speaker announced Valentina Matvienko, RIA Novosti reported. She did not elaborate on what region of the world in question.
«We turn to the second issue – the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation outside the Russian Federation”, – quotes its Interfax.
After of the Senators voted in favor of reviewing the matter closed.
A source in the Federation Council, told RBC that we are talking about the use of Russian troops in Syria.
On Monday, the presidents of Russia and the United States discussed the Syrian issue on the sidelines of UN General Assembly. Speaking at the UN, Putin did not rule out that Russia can help Syrian President Bashar Assad, if he so requests. Putin stressed that until now Damascus for help did not apply.
The head of the Pentagon’s Ashton Carter gave the order to open the link with Russia Syria. The agreement was reached Putin and Obama during their private meeting on Monday .
The Kremlin press service reported that President Vladimir Putin made a proposal on the use of the Armed Forces in accordance with paragraph “d” of part 1 of Article 102 of the Constitution and “on the basis of universally recognized principles and norms of international law.” The official representative of the President when considering treatment appointed the head of the Kremlin administration, Sergei Ivanov and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
In an interview with US journalist Charlie Rose for CBS television network and PBS Putin said on September 28 that excludes the participation of the armed forces of Russia Syrian conflict. “Russia will not participate in any military operations on the territory of Syria or in other countries, at least to date, we do not plan to,” – Putin said two days ago. However, Putin added that Russian authorities are thinking of ‘how to intensify our work with President Assad, and with our partners in other countries ».
The last time the Federation Council gives the president Putin the right to use armed force March 1, 2014 after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine. June 25 upper house of parliament reversed its decision at the request of the Heads of State. As explained by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the decision was made in connection with the beginning of the tripartite talks to resolve the situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine.
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