The State Department said Putin’s words about the US approach to the fight against terrorism – REGNUM

Washington, October 23, 2015, 02:11 – REGNUM Deputy Head of the press service of the US State Department Mark Toner at a briefing October 22, told reporters that Washington does not agree with the criticism from Russian President Vladimir Putin about the US approach to the fight against international terrorism.

Commenting President of the Russian Federation on the inadmissibility of “word games” and the division of terrorist groups to moderate and immoderate, Toner said he had not seen these statements, and not sure in what context they were made by Vladimir Putin. US State Department spokesman said that Washington remains committed “to its approach to countering terrorism,” as in the fight against “Al Qaeda” and “Islamic state».

Toner said that Washington was able to build “what seems to us an effective coalition” consisting of 65 member states to deal with IG in Iraq and Syria. As for the so-called “moderate opposition”, a spokesman for the US State Department noted that “moderate Syrian opposition” does exist and it is necessary to make sure that she “had a chance to become part of a meaningful and inclusive political transition” to the new government in Syria.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his speech at a meeting of the club “Valdai” on October 22 said he did not have to play in words, to divide terrorists into moderate and immoderate. «I would like to understand the difference. Perhaps, according to some experts, is that moderate bandits, as they say, in moderation, or gentle way decapitated people », – said the head of state.

According to him, in recent years, the situation is deteriorating more and more, the terrorist infrastructure grew, the number of fighters increased, and weapons which passed the so-called “moderate opposition”, “moderate opposition”, inevitably proves to be in the hands of terrorist organizations. «What is more, sometimes to his side skip whole gang, they say,” to the music and orchestra », – Putin said.

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