Putin Calls Al-Assad, Congratulates Him on Aleppo Liberation
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to congratulate him on the full liberation of Syria's strategic city of Aleppo from the control of foreign-backed militants.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and congratulated him with the end of the operation of liberation of Aleppo from fighters," the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday.
"This success was possible thanks to mutual efforts of all who came together in the fight with international terrorism in Syria," it said.
The statement added that Putin "underlined that the main task remains to focus efforts on issues pertaining to the... resolution of the Syrian crisis."
According to the statement, Putin also told al-Assad that the efforts must be directed toward trying to achieving an agreement to resolve the Syria crisis.
Meanwhile, according to a statement by the office of the Syrian Presidency on Friday, al-Assad thanked his Russian counterpart for having been Syria's main partner in the liberation of Aleppo.
He said the city's fall had opened the door to a political process, the statement added.
Al-Assad and Putin discussed the way forward for Syria after almost six years of war, it said.
The phone call came a day after the Syrian military announced that it had attained full control of the northwestern city, having completely cleansed its eastern side of militants for the first time since 2012.
The victory came about despite military support for the militants by the United States, Turkey, and some Arab countries in the Gulf region.
At a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Friday, Putin described the liberation of Syria's second city as a sizeable step toward the restoration of stability in the Arab country and the region in general.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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