Member of the US Congress reported a meeting with Bashar Assad in Syria

Member of the House of Representatives of the US Congress from Hawaii Democrat Tulsey Gabbard, who previously read one of the key posts in the presidential administration Donald Trump, in an interview with CNN spoke about her meeting in Syria with the country's president Bashar Assad.

Gabbard, who had been military service in Iraq for two years, said that she was in Syria for four days. “Initially, I did not plan to meet him, but when the opportunity appeared, I took advantage of it. I thought: if we say that the Syrian suffering is not indifferent to us, then we must have the opportunity to meet with anyone, if necessary, to achieve peace,” said the congressman, quoted by TASS.

“Whatever you think about Assade, the fact is that he is the president of Syria. In order for a chance to conclude any peaceful agreement, you need to conduct a dialogue with him,” Gabbard continued. “The Syrians will decide what will happen to him, as well as what their government will be,” the legislator emphasized, summarizing that the main thing for her is to achieve the cessation of the war.

Tulsey Gabbard, who, according to the ABC television company, was one of the applicants for the Secretary of State in the Trump administration, said that during a trip to Syria they repeatedly talked with local residents and asked why the United States and their allies provide support and weapons to terrorist groups.

The legislator criticized Washington for help from extremists in Syria and emphasized that all the people with whom she spoke in this Arab country was assured that there was no such thing as a “moderate opposition”. "The Syrians understand that if the president of Assad is overthrown, then al -Qaeda (prohibited in the Russian Federation. - Note Newsru.com ) or a similar group who killed Christians and other people who refused to support her, will receive control over the whole of Syria," she added.

According to Gabbard, which is given by Business Insider , her trip to Syria showed that the struggle that the United States conducts to overthrow the Assad regime is counter -productive and does not correspond to America's interests. “And, of course, she is not in the interests of the Syrian people,” she added.

In November 2015, in an interview with CNN, Tulsey Gabbard stated that Washington made by Washington to remove Assad from the authorities only contribute to the strengthening of the Islamic State terrorist group ( Daish , prohibited in the Russian Federation) and the like. She emphasized that in this way Washington repeats the mistakes of the past. Among the latter, she then called "the overthrow of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the dictator in Libya Muammar Gaddafi."

In the case of ASAD, extremist groups will “receive the whole of Syria” and “will pose an even greater threat, they will become even stronger”, the legislator said. When asked by the journalist about whether she believes that it is impossible to stabilize the situation in Syria while Assad is in power, Gabbard in November 2015 replied that "the same thing said about Hussein and Gaddafi." As a result, “the modes of regimes followed, the following attempts to form statehood crashed, and this increased our enemy,” she said.