U.S. does not recognize the elections in Syria

U.S. does not recognize the elections in Syria

News Update,WASHINGTON DC - Following the situation in Syria is slowly starting conducive to post-enactment of a ceasefire agreed the United States (US) and Russia, elections (elections) legislative held on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 last.

The parliamentary elections held in seven thousand voting places (TPS), in which 3,500 candidates will compete for 250 parliamentary seats.

Although the results are yet to be released, but the election is already reaping the denial of recognition, especially from the US who call that the election was credible.

"Difficult to see from different points of view, the election that is credible when the regime (of President Bashar al-Assad) continue killing its own citizens," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Ministry), John Kirby.

"The United States can not see how the Syrian Parliament elections to be believed, at the time of the citizens (who fled to the country Syria) sidelined," he added, proclaimed Sputnik, Friday (15/04/2016).

Approximately four million Syrians, recorded refuge abroad since the start of the civil war in 2011. Rather than hold elections, the US stressed the need for dialogue between the rebels and the Assad government.

"What we see is, the regime (Assad) and the opposition to continue dialogue on the transition process viable," Kirby completed..(n/u)