ArmInfo.The decision of Armenia to send a humanitarian mission to Syria is justified and correct. About it. On February 15, during a meeting with journalists, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov at the request to comment on the dispatch of the Armenian humanitarian military contingent in Syrian Aleppo.
According to him, this is correct from the point of view of the tragedy of the people of Syria, of helping their brothers, who were in trouble. <You know me this most of all it pleases, because on the one hand Armenians live there. I was there, in Aleppo, a beautiful city where many Armenians live. On the other hand, you were not afraid of any West, the reaction of the West, the fact that they say "Assad is the way out." To do this, you had to have courage. This will be appreciated in Russia for sure, and appreciated very positively, "said Kalashnikov. At the same time, the Russian parliamentarian expressed his conviction that the West uses dual approaches in its actions. <We, in Russia, are very normally and positively assess this step, "Kalashnikov concluded.
On February 8, the humanitarian mission of Armenia consisting of 83 people began its work in Aleppo, which is entrusted with the task of demining outside the combat zone, anti-mine informing the population and providing medical assistance to the residents of Aleppo. The US Embassy issued a statement by the US State Department, in which Washington criticized this move by Yerevan. The statement also notes that Washington does not support cooperation between Armenia and Russia in the implementation of this mission.