Sept 19, 2020
The oil deal
between the United States and Syrian Kurds is a blatant breach of international
laws, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Sputnik.
“There have
recently been statements of illegal US group in the east of Syria, which signed
a deal that allows a US oil company to extract hydrocarbons on the Syrian
sovereign territory — in the most outrageous breach of all possible principles
of the international law,” the minister said.
Washington actions
east of the Euphrates river are stoking tensions with the Kurds’ issues, the
minister said.
“The situation on
the eastern bank of the Euphrates is worrying, as the US troops who are
stationed there illegally are clearly encouraging separatist tendencies of the
Kurds, unfortunately, they are siccing the Kurds on the government and
restraining the Kurds’ natural wish to start a dialogue with the government,”
Lavrov said.
Source: Sputnik
