Britain will persuade Trump not to change policy on Syria

The British Foreign Office will try to convince Donald Trump to continue the current course of the US administration on the issue of Syria, especially the need to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is the news of the Telegraph.

He will convince Trump not to change his policy on Syria.

According to the media, this issue will be the "number one" priority. Previously, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, newly elected US President Donald Trump said that in Syria it is necessary to deal with the IS terrorist group, not try to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

Britain is on the brink of a diplomatic crisis with the US over Trump's plans to form a coalition with Russian President Vladimir Putin to support the Syrian regime. British officials will soon hold "very difficult" talks with Trump about his stance on Russia, the newspaper said.

Foreign Office officials said it would be "extremely difficult", but London had no intention of changing its position. "We are very clear that Assad has no place in Syria's future. He has the blood of 400,000 people on his hands," the newspaper quoted a British Foreign Office representative as saying.

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