MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the U.S. Congress had no right to approve the use of force against Syria without a decision from the U.N. Security Council, and that doing so would be an "act of aggression".
He said "anything that is outside the U.N. Security Council is aggression, except self-defence. Now what Congress and the U.S. Senate are doing in essence is legitimising aggression. This is inadmissible in principle."
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