{"id":72034,"date":"2016-03-15T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=72034"},"modified":"2016-03-15T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:12:48","slug":"zarif-russias-move-to-reduce-its-forces-in-syria-positive-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=72034","title":{"rendered":"Zarif: Russia\u2019s move to reduce its forces in Syria positive sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra, SANA &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that Russia&#8217;s move to reduce its forces in Syria should be seen as &#8220;a positive sign&#8221; for the cessation of hostilities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Canberra during meeting with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop, Zarif underlined that Iran has always called for a cessation of hostilities, to whose enforcement it contributed, and is now playing a role to reach a political solution in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that a ceasefire has been holding in Syria is welcome news&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif said &#8220;while the ceasefire did not include ISIS terrorist organization, and the al-Qaeda linked extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra or their collaborators, the international community was united against them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The message that the international community has been sending to ISIS, and should be sending to ISIS and other extremist organizations, is that our fight against them is relentless,&#8221; Zarif said.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian and Russian sides agreed, during a telephone call between President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday to reduce the number of the Russian air forces in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>R. Milhem\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra, SANA &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that Russia&#8217;s move to reduce its forces in Syria should be seen as &#8220;a positive sign&#8221; for the cessation of hostilities in the country. Speaking in Canberra during meeting with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop, Zarif underlined that Iran has always called for a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":72035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,112,6987,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-asia","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}