US Wants to Blur Tasks of Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation

Rasa - Russia believes that the United States is trying to obscure tasks of the global counter-terrorism cooperation, Deputy Director of the Department for New Challenges and Threats at the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Feoktistov told reporters in Washington.

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Date: 04 May 2018 - 20:32

RNA - "We have long observed an alarming symptom connected to Americans’ attempts to blur tasks of the global counter-terrorism cooperation and shift away from the general understanding that it is ISIL that constitutes an unprecedented global threat to international peace and security, the way it was confirmed in UN Security Council Resolution 2249 after murderous terrorist attacks on Paris," the diplomat said, TASS reported.

"No terrorist organization has ever posed such a threat and has never been qualified by the UN Security Council as a global and unprecedented threat. Despite defeats in Syria and Iraq, ISIL, as we all can see, is spreading across the world - in Southeast Asia, North Africa, Northern Afghanistan, moving to Central Asia and so one. However, Americans recently stopped saying that ISIL is the main threat," Feoktistov stressed.

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