Hopefully they will agree on pursuing the long-awaited and elusive Security Council Resolution authorising armed action – with the long-suffering Syrian people being its ultimate beneficiaries after five horrific years of war, 250000 deaths and millions being internally displaced and externally dispersed.
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Trudeau said that for now nations involved in diplomatic efforts on Syria’s conflict should concentrate on what was agreed on in global talks last week in Vienna.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov told Ekho Moskvy radio that it was “absolutely not” crucial that Mr Assad, who visited Moscow last month, remained in control in the future.
But another regime change in the Middle East could be a catastrophe that “could simply turn the whole region into a large black hole”, she added.
The Lebanese Hezbollah group, which the military backs, has also sent fighters. He said that Russian Federation, unlike Iran, “is not concerned with Assad’s survival”, stressing that Iran sees no alternative to the current Syrian leader.
Despite a diaspora that includes four million refugees in addition to migrants who left before the war, just 200,000 people voted overseas, according to a Syrian official.
However, at a joint press convention, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry each acknowledged variations stay over the way forward for al-Assad, however saying the hole wouldn’t stand in the best way of ending the warfare in Syria.
Russian officials have insisted that their military involvement in Syria will be limited to an air force operation.
Tensions have been high between the US and Russian Federation since Russia began a bombing campaign in Syria in late September.
“It does appear that they were in areas where there probably were not ISIL forces, and that is precisely one of the problems with this whole approach”, Carter said at the time, referring to the terror group by the name the USA government uses to describe it.
Two top US diplomats said Wednesday that 85 percent to 90 percent of Russian airstrikes in Syria had killed moderate opposition forces and civilians and that Moscow’s intervention had done little to stop Islamic State extremists.
Third, foreign security agencies will cooperate with Russian Federation on gathering intelligence against the Islamic State, in order to target the organization and weaken it.
‘Such close cooperation will allow us to unite the efforts of the government troops with other patriotic forces in Syria that used to be in the opposition and act as a united front against the common enemy – worldwide terrorism, ‘ the defence ministry said in a statement.
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In the west, Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes in Hama province while unidentified jets bombarded the outskirts of the IS-held city of Raqqa in the north.
