Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his family are located in MoscowRussian news agencies announced on Sunday evening, citing a source in the Kremlin, after the fall of the Syrian authorities caused by a lightning offensive by rebel groups led by radical Islamists.
“Assad and his family members arrived in Moscow. Russia, based on humanitarian considerations, granted them asylum,” the source told state news agencies TASS and Ria Novosti.
Russia calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting
A Kremlin source said Moscow wants “the continuation of political dialogue in the interests of the Syrian people and the development of bilateral relations between Russia and Syria.” She added that “the Russia has always been in favor of a political solution to the Syrian crisis. We start from the need to resume negotiations under the auspices of the UN.”
Dmitry Poliansky, Russia's deputy representative to the UN, announced that Moscow had requested an emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria for Monday afternoon. On Telegram, he said that “the depth and consequences of the events in Syria for this country and the entire region have not yet been measured.”
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