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Moscow, SANA – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted that it is inadmissible to delay the resumption of the intra-Syrian dialogue in Geneva.
“Of course, we talked about the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, above all, in the light of the situation with strengthening the positions of terrorists groups and in the light of need for an uncompromising fight against the ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and all those hiding under their umbrella,” Lavrov said in a press conference with Luxembourg’s foreign minister.
“The Russian-US document package agreed in Geneva on September (9-10), which has come into force, is to help to start moving towards resolving the Syrian crisis in the context of solving anti-terrorist tasks and improving the humanitarian situation, strengthening the cessation of hostilities regime by all parties to the truce, and terrorists are certainly not among them.”
He stated “All this should lay the groundwork for resuming the intra-Syrian political process…delaying is inadmissible,” stressing that “This is what we told UN Secretary General’s special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Geneva.”
“To ensure there should be no doubts as to how we will go about the business of implementing the agreement in its original form we have suggested making it public after all. Not keeping it secret, contrary to the wish of our US partners,” Lavrov said, adding “We have nothing to hide. Everything that is stated there is a matter of agreement.”
“We’ve assumed the commitment to comply with everything diligently and to encourage all those on whom the implementation of various section of this agreement depends to adhere to all this honesty and openly,” Lavrov said.
He added that once again that Russia would be pressing for the publication of these agreements.
“And we suggest presenting this document to the UN Security Council for approval without any amendments,” Lavrov said.
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