Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who received asylum from Russia, is safe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.Kommersant.
He added that the Russian government does not plan to extradite Assad if the International Criminal Court issues a warrant for his arrest, as the Russian Federation has not ratified the Rome Statute. "President Assad is in Russia.
In such a situation, it would be wrong for me to make assumptions about what happened and how the problem was resolved. But he is safe. This shows that Russia is acting as required in such extraordinary situations."
said Ryabkov. The Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation added that Russia hopes that the situation created in Syria will not lead to the fragmentation of the country. According to him, Syria "must be sovereign, united and complete".
