{"id":63771,"date":"2015-12-09T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=63771"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T17:28:00","slug":"lavrov-connecting-between-formation-of-anti-terrorism-coalition-and-departure-of-president-al-assad-contributes-to-isis-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=63771","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov: Connecting between formation of anti-terrorism coalition and departure of President al-Assad contributes to ISIS expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow, SANA-Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Wednesday that those who insist to connect between the departure of President Bashar al-Assad and the formation of an international coalition against terrorism are contributing indirectly to maintaining the favorable conditions for the expansion of ISIS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If the issue of President al-Assad continues to be artificially clung onto as an obstacle to creating an actual universal anti-terrorist coalition, then those who are insisting on this, and I cannot assess this any differently, will indirectly maintain the conditions that allow ISIS to continue expanding,&#8221; Lavrov said during an interview with Italian news agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the stance of the West towards the issue of President al-Assad has undergone some modifications as Russia\u2019s partners are no longer demanding his immediate departure and not ruling out his participation in the political process, but &#8220;they still insist on setting a date for his departure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Lavrov, Kerry discuss crisis in Syria <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a relevant context, Lavrov called for implementing resolutions adopted at Vienna meeting about the mechanism of forming the delegation of the Syrian opposition which stipulated forming a national opposition delegation to take part in negotiations with the Syrian government under UN umbrella.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Lavrov discussed with his US counterpart John Kerry, in a telephone call, the Syrian file including the possibility of holding a new session for the International Group on Supporting Syria,&#8221; Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It added that Lavrov drew the attention of Kerry on the need for carrying out the resolutions of the Group which were taken on November 14<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry pointed out that Lavrov and Kerry agreed on the importance of working to launch a political process in Syria through maintaining a &#8220;compromise&#8221; among all participants in the International Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manar al-Frieh\/Manal\/ Mazen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA-Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Wednesday that those who insist to connect between the departure of President Bashar al-Assad and the formation of an international coalition against terrorism are contributing indirectly to maintaining the favorable conditions for the expansion of ISIS. &#8220;If the issue of President al-Assad continues to be artificially clung &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[646,5077,3410],"class_list":["post-63771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-president-bashar-al-assad","tag-russian-foreign-minister-sergei-lavrov","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}