Last year, two rounds of peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition representatives in Geneva ended in failure over President Bashar Assad’s fate.
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The regime does not recognise the Syrian opposition in exile and considers all rebel groups as terrorists.
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Russian airstrikes have targeted both ISIS and rebels in Syria, the USA says.
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The Syrian civil war has left more than 250,000 dead and has displaced millions.
Defeating Daesh has now become the number one priority for the United States and Russian Federation, putting the future of Assad on hold for the moment.
“We welcome the positive development in the stances of our Western partners as they are now calling for a speedy start to the talks between the Syrian government and opposition next January, even though they claim that the Syrian government is illegal”, he added.
But this time the Syrian peace talks should be compressive and should only exclude extremist elements like Islamic State and Nusra Front.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed hope for continuation of dialogue with Qatar on the bilateral agenda and on the situation in the Middle East. He was speaking on Friday opening talks with his Qatari counterpart Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah. A binding ceasefire will have to take place concurrently.
These talks – which, according to the resolution, should be accompanied by a nationwide cease-fire – are meant to yield a transitional government tasked with initiating constitutional reforms before general elections are held in June 2017.
The source offered a rather tortured rationale for denying that the Joint Chiefs were, in effect, going behind President Obama’s back and propping up the Syrian regime: they were giving good intelligence to allies like Germany, and if those allies made a decision to pass it along to the gas-spewing monster of Damascus, well…
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Agreement on Friday by the UN Security Council to a unanimous resolution on Syria may be a welcome, belated consensus on the part of the global community, but it scarcely reflects well on the potency of the institution in whom we all entrust responsibility for maintaining world peace. If worldwide assistance is provided in developing Syria’s democratic institutions and political infrastructure, they can build a robust civil society that can assert its own identity and sovereignty, independent of outside influence. Syrian conflict has all the potential to spread in the region and will affect the regional political dynamics for years, perhaps decades, and could exacerbate a wider Shi’a-versus-Sunni sectarian conflict in the region.
