Is the only country that each talks to everybody beat syria we have a talk to the government to the opposition to the kurds and to the americans by the way i want military as close a mechanism on the dick inflicting if you take leave babytalk to start with dr sun if we talk to her after we talk to. Anyone graham and others. The same is true in iraq we talk to the soon issue to the kurds i recently visited iraq and about that and then there are a bill so we always and of course in iraq we also work closely with authority and their own. And may i remind you that until last on the group was formed that the in 2016 the end of the 1015. There was no dialogue between the government and the and the real opposition the only place use them a position which was groomed by the west at that time immigrants living in the stone bowl in their day in the europe and the United States and they will present that as a part in the foyer. Then russia turkey and iran i range for the 4 months where the govern
Territory was not used to launch these attacks the statement went on to say that iraq sort self as having a vital role in trying to diffuse this crisis its fair to say though that this tension has escalated in recent months between the u. S. And iran a lot of attention is being paid towards certain very powerful armed groups in this country that are backed by iran that support iran here the socalled Popular Mobilization forces that were set up in 2014 to fight i saw were integrated into the Iraqi Security forces in 2016 and theres been as i say a lot of questions as to how they would respond to any kind of potential military escalation by the u. S. Against iran or iranian interests now there has been no official statement by the Popular Mobilisation forces in relation to this Current Crisis the Iraqi Government is very keen to stress that iraq is very much doing all it can to diffuse this crisis but of course this major u. S. Ally iraq its biggest regional ally is iran iran has a huge
Can make this number to reach 3000000 by this way especially turkey. And why this way all the refugees Syrian Refugees can go back to their country and would not be a burden to any country especially turkey. And with the support of International Community we could build a new accommodation and residence residence for these refugees we are ready to take all the responsibility with russia and with iran and the other members of International Community. We want to work on the return of the refugees to syria we have taken steps recently on base with iraq and jordan. So we. We initiated a International Conference on the return of the refugees Syrian Refugees we are accepting our friends to join this with these thoughts. I hate uncursed summits will bring peace and. Prosperity to back to syria again and hopefully on make them it will be. Following month. In iran and id like to thank mr rouhani and id like to give the floor to mr rouhani smooth monitoring him. God will feed. Us for a meeting a
This is the committees second hearing of congress on the syrian conflict but its been raised during many of our meetings. To date, more than 400,000 people have been killed in the syrian conflict, more than 12 Million People, roughly half of all syrians, are displaced and the assad regime bears overwhelming responsibility for this destruction and extremism it has spawned. However, none of this would have been possible without the support of iran and russia, both of which intervened on assads behalf to extend influence in a region and counter the u. S. And its partners. With the support of the u. S. And Coalition Partners the Syrian Democratic forces succeeded in sweeping isis out of raqqah in october. Of course, despite losing much of its territory in syria and iraq, isis remains a major threat. And theres also the ongoing danger posed by al qaeda, syria, and affiliates which maintain significant influence in oppositioncontrolled areas. So its worth highlighting two recent developments
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