US saw the light, that the immediate withdrawal of Assad “Syria will explode” – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, September 30 – RIA Novosti. The United States insists on the “smooth transition” of power in Syria and called for the immediate resignation of President Bashar al-Assad, said US Secretary of State John Kerry in an interview to CNN.

“We have changed it … so does not work. We need a smooth transition, with the transition, so that there were no concerns about retaliation, lives lost and revenge,” – said Kerry, in response to the assertion of the journalist that before the United States demanded Assad’s immediate resignation. He added that if Assad leaves office soon, it could lead to “the implosion” that will deprive the country of any social life.

According to the channel, so Kerry told about the change of the position of the United States.

In addition, in an interview with Kerry noted that the involvement of Russia in the settlement of the Syrian conflict could be an “opportunity” for the US to resolve the crisis.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, speaking on Monday at the jubilee session of the UN General Assembly urged the international community to build a broad international coalition against terrorism with the Islamic countries. Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria previously created a general information center in Baghdad to coordinate the fight against the IG.

Syria since March 2011. The ongoing armed conflict, in which, according to the UN, has killed more than 220 thousand people. Government troops to confront militias belonging to various armed groups. The most active fighters are extremist groups “Islamic state” and “Al-Nusra Dzhebhat.”

united front against the IG is not: with the group fighting the government forces of Syria and Iraq, an international coalition led by the US (so far limited to air strikes) as well as the Kurds and the Lebanese Shiite militia and Iraqi. As a result of the fighting, hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and several million have become refugees.