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"Issues of bilateral economic and investment cooperation, including the implementation of joint projects in the energy sector" will be discussed during the visit, said the announcement of the Kremlin.
Saturday, May 28, the Russian president will visit Mount Athos, a visit in the nature of a pilgrimage.
"Particular attention will be given to cultural and humanitarian cooperation (...) in the context of the celebration in 2016 of the Millennium (monastic) of the Russian presence on the Holy Mountain," says the statement of the Kremlin.
The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill will visit Greece from 27 to 29 May to take part in these celebrations. "On May 27, I hope to visit Mount Athos and to remain there until May 29, commemorating the inhabitants of Mount Athos and numerous pilgrims for the millennium of the first reference to a Russian monastery on Mount Athos," said Patriarch Kyril.
The Hmeymim group will support the Syrian opposition Moscow platform's proposal to appoint five vice presidents in Syria's transitional government only as a part of a wider comprehensive peace settlement plan, Tarek Ahmad, a member of the Hmeymim group, told Sputnik on Thursday.
"We will support this or any other proposal only if it includes a comprehensive approach towards solving the Syrian crisis and fulfills the UN Security Council resolution on war on terror and all conditions of Vienna talks rather than only a political aspect of the solution," Ahmad said.
The Moscow platform of the Moscow-Cairo-formed group proposed appointing several vice-presidents, deputies for Syrian President Bashar Assad, during the latest round of intra-Syrian talks in Geneva on April 13-27. The arrangement, which enables the formation of a transitional governing body, allegedly received a positive response from UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. The Riyadh-formed High Negotiations Committee opposition delegation, however, ruled out the proposals, saying that Assad must go, and it is the "red line."
"We need to search for a complete package to end the war in Syria. That means that the Saudis, the Turks and the Americans and those who are behind them along with some European states should support fight against terrorism as the Russians always point," Ahmad stressed.
The Syrian city of Raqqa will become a part of the Federal Democratic System of Rojava and Northern Syria following its liberation from Daesh terrorists, a representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Iraqi Kurdistan, Gharib Hassou, said Thursday.Ahh, the spoils of war... John Kerry must be cackling with Plan B glee.
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"Since the assault on Raqqa is carried out by the SDF, it makes sense that after its recapture, the city will become a part of the democratic federal system created by us in northern Syria," Hassou told RIA Novosti. The Syrian government cannot do anything to oppose the city joining the Kurdish federal system, as "the Syrian army failed to do something with the terrorists in Raqqa," Hassou said. He noted that the Syrian army was not taking part in the offensive to retake Raqqa.
Comment: Since we can now say that U.S. politics is, for all intents and purposes, insane - and there exists little to no chance of any sane leadership holding the reins of power any time soon - the probability of a major conflagration with Russia now seems, sadly, to be inevitable.