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Agreement with U.S. on Syrian conflict valid: Russian foreign ministry

Xinhua, October 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that there is a valid agreement on Syrian conflict prevention between Russia and United States, after the United States unilaterally suspended corresponding talks.

Answering a question about the possibility of direct collision between the Russian and American military forces in Syria, Zakharova said: "We have concluded an agreement with (the) United States on conflict prevention on Syrian territory."

In an interview with the state television channel Rossiya 1, the diplomat said that the situation in Syria is far more complicated because firstly, it is nurturing new terrorists, "who will fill the whole Europe, the United States and other regions."

Secondly, any real prospects for Syrian settlement has been rejected for a long time, the spokeswoman said.

On Monday, the U.S. State Department said Washington was suspending negotiation with Moscow on restoring a cease-fire in Syria, slamming Moscow for its military role in the attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo.

On Sept. 10, Russia and the United States announced a landmark agreement on a nationwide ceasefire in Syria, which both sides hoped would lead to their countries' military cooperation to end more than five years of bloodshed there.

However, the truce accord has not been strictly observed with both parties trading accusations of failures to implement the deal. Endi