The head of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad said he supports the Russian Federation in position on Ukraine, said Last news people's choice of the state Duma from the CPRF Sergey Gavrilov, which is part of the Russian delegation of the Russian parliamentarians arrived in Syria.

"He (Assad) said that they support our position on Ukraine and expressed gratitude to Sergey Naryshkin (in Russian - speaker of the state Duma of the Russian Federation) for his principled stand, made in Ukraine and in the Syrian Arab Republic, on the need to return to the legal field and the cessation of U.S. support of the Syrian forces," said Gavrilov at the meeting.

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