No terrorism in states with ISIL until outside interference without UN permission - Putin

MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. There was no terrorism in countries where the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) organization acts until outside interference occurred without UN Security Council permission, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a meeting with secretaries of the security councils of BRICS - a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. "We know what is going on now, say, in the Middle East, in North Africa, we know problems connected with the terrorist organization that arrogated the right to be called ‘the Islamic State’," Putin said. "But there was no terrorism in the countries where it is active now until a totally unacceptable outside interference, which occurred without United Nations Security Council sanction, took place," he said. "It is clear that the consequences are hard. Everything that happened in the previous years on the international arena certainly needs adjustment," Putin said. The Russian leaders said he considers the meeting as an important stage of preparation for the BRICS summit in Ufa in July 2015. Read more