And Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow and France agreed to coordinate work of their militaries and enhance information exchanges.
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Mr Putin used his joint news conference with his French counterpart to repeat allegations of Turkey turning a “blind eye” to Isis oil smuggling and the flow of extremists across the border.
Cameron, who met with the French leader in Paris Monday, made the case in the British Parliament on Thursday for airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, arguing that an expansion of military action is needed to counter “the very direct threat that (ISIS) poses to our country and our way of life”.
Hollande reiterated that Assad, a key Moscow ally, “has no place in the future of Syria”.
“What’s more, we think this coalition is absolutely necessary and that’s where our positions are the same, “Putin said”.
Russian Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukaev at an identical session said that economic sanctions would impact Turkstream, the planned gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey declared by Putin last December, and the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, which it signed an agreement with Russia to construct in May 2010.
“I believe that we should now take the decision to extend British air strikes against ISIL into Syria”, he said, adding: “It is wrong for the United Kingdom to sub-contract its security to other countries”. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told reporters that the government had also agreed to provide satellite surveillance.
Both Russia and France have stepped up their aerial bombing campaigns in Syria but they have different objectives.
Germany now provides weapons and training for Kurds fighting against IS in Iraq. That article, which commits all North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to collective defense if any one of them is attacked, has only been invoked once, after September 11, when North Atlantic Treaty Organisation agreed to go after Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban in defense of the United States.
Cameron met with Hollande earlier this week and has said he “firmly supported” France’s actions, but US President Barack Obama has given the idea of greater cooperation with Russian Federation against IS a much cooler reception.
As if to underscore their frustration with Moscow, Obama and Hollande played down the biggest news of the day – Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane- and instead chided Russia for impeding progress toward a political settlement to the Syrian conflict.
The Turkish military Tuesday announced it shot down a Russian military aircraft near the Syrian border after it ignored multiple warnings and entered Turkish airspace, a charge Moscow immediately denied.
“The impacts are going to be important”, said Fyodor Lukyanov, a leading Russian political analyst.
Putin also lashed out at Washington, saying that it had been informed of where the jet would be “and we were hit exactly there and at that time”.
Islamic State has also said it downed a Russian plane on October 31 over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, killing all 224 people on board.
The diplomatic development came as Hollande traveled to Moscow as part of a week-long effort to bolster support for the fight against the militant group responsible for the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on November 13.
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However, he said, “if our partners aren’t ready for that, OK, we are ready to work in a different format that is acceptable to our partners”.
