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| The Russian Black Sea Fleet |
Russia
is sending three military ships with hundreds of marines aboard to a
Moscow-leased naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus.
According
to the Russian military, the landing ships, each with up to 120 armed navy
personnel on board, will visit the Syrian port in coming days and spend a few
days there.
The
exact nature of the ships’ mission remains unclear. While Russian news agencies
quoted a source in the general staff as saying that they will take on fresh
supplies of food and water, some reports suggest that Russian marines will stay
in Tartus to protect the country’s staff there.
The
ships are currently conducting planned exercises in the Mediterranean Sea and
after visiting Tartus they will head for the Bosphorus and the Russian Black
Sea port of Novorossiysk, a unnamed military source said on Friday.
"They
will spend a few days there and then head toward the northeastern section of
the Mediterranean Sea" before heading toward the Russian coast, said the
unnamed official.
Meanwhile,
Moscow has called on major powers to "urgently" replace former UN
envoy to Syria Kofi Annan, who quit his post after blaming a lack of international
support for his six-point plan aimed at ending the country's violence.
"A
worthy candidate to succeed Kofi Annan should be urgently found," the
Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday adding that "in the
developing situation, keeping a UN presence in the country acquires special
significance."
Moscow
blames the Syrian insurgents and West and Arab states that support them for
Annan's resignation.
"Unfortunately,
the Syrian opposition has consistently rejected all proposals to establish
political dialogue. Our Western partners, (and) some regional states which
could have influenced the opposition, have done nothing," the statement
said.
Russia,
along with China, has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions against the
Syrian government and has repeatedly said that only a Syrian solution would end
the country's months-long crisis not the foreign intervention.
(press tv)
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