Putin regrets that some forces in Washington disrupted his agreement with Obama on Syria

SOCHI, October 27 /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin regrets that his personal agreements with President Barack Obama on Syria have failed to work and that some forces in Washington have disrupted those plans. Putin touched upon the situation in Syria in his speech at a meeting of the Valdai international discussion club. "We have not succeeded in stopping the bloodshed and launching a political process in Syria. It seemed that after long negotiations, enormous efforts and complicated compromises a united front for the struggle against terrorism started taking shape," Putin said. "However, that did not happen. It (the front) has not been created," the Russian president added. "My personal agreements with the US president did not work either. Some forces in Washington did everything to prevent the implementation of those agreements," President Putin emphasized. The president believes that all this "is demonstrating the unexplainable and irrational desire of western countries to repeat their mistakes again and again or, as a saying goes, ‘walk into the same water twice’." "All of us can see what’s happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and a number of other countries. I am asking myself a question: where are the results of struggle against terrorism and extremism? Fundamental results on a global scale? Some results can be seen in separate places in regions but globally there have been no results in the struggle against terrorism," Putin said adding that terrorist threats were growing. Read more