Moscow, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) The announced efforts by international stakeholders to create zones of influence instead of joining forces to defeat terrorism are destructive, a Russian expert in international conflicts said on Wednesday.
The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordiuzha, told Prensa Latina that all States should work to make common efforts to find a political solution instead of divisions.

Such initiatives, according to Bordiuzha, do not lead to either positive results or a constructive solution, especially when all forces must unite to defeat terrorism for good, he pointed out.

Bordiuzha made it clear that the CSTO, a mechanism of coordination on post-Soviet territories, has no mandate on Syria's situation, and recalled the disastrous experiences in Libya after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) imposed a no-fly zone that created chaos and destruction in that North African country.

Recently, US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama himself presented a Pentagon-sponsored plan to create zones of influence in Syria, but Russia is against that plan, because it considers it illegitimate and to the detriment of that country's territorial integrity.

Washington is planning to send another 250 Special Forces troops to Syria without consulting Damascus or the United Nations.