Maduro: Western Powers Nursed Terrorist Groups in Middle East

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday accused Western powers of helping create the extremist crisis in the Middle East and said that the only solution involved respecting regional governments.

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Maduro said he agreed on the need to fight terrorism but criticized Western support for other rebels battling the Syrian government.

"Only an alliance that respects these nations' sovereignty and the assistance of their governments, people and armed forces will truly defeat...terrorism as well as all of the terrorist forces that have emerged like a Frankenstein, a monster nursed by the West itself," he said.

Maduro said that, if the Syrian government were overthrown, "Today throughout this vast region of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan, these terrorist groups would have established power."

"The democratic and constitutional government of Syria has detained terrorists and suffered thousands of deaths," Maduro said.

Additionally, he said that the Ebola virus was the world's biggest threat but that Western powers were busy "bombing the people of Iraq and Syria."

US President Barack Obama, with support from Arab and European allies, has launched air strikes in a claim he says is to push back the so-called "Daesh" [ISIL] extremist group. Yet, he has also demanded that the Syrian government step down and stepped up support for rebels in Syria who he says are more "moderate."

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