Need For Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh, Says Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there is a growing understanding of the need for the formation of an international coalition to defeat the Daesh Takfiri terrorists.

Lavrov made the remarks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at the end of the multilateral meeting in Vienna.

He said Moscow and Washington agreed to place the DaeshTakfiris and the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants on the common list of terrorist organizations and stressed that other terrorist groups should also be added to it.

“We should fight them for their destruction,” the Russian foreign minister said.

He noted that Jordan would oversee a process that would determine which groups should be considered terrorists.

This process should be completed by the time the political process between the government and opposition begins in January, he added.

The Russian foreign minister said most but not all parties to the Vienna talks were in favor of an immediate ceasefire in Syria.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has instructed his officials to work out a plan for monitoring the ceasefire in Syria, Lavrov said.

‘Very good’ meeting held on Syria, says Mogherini

Meanwhile, European Union foreign policy Chief Federica Mogherini has described as “very good” the latest round of international talks on the crisisin Syria in Vienna.

“The process can definitively start” toward reaching a settlement for the crisis in Syria, Mogherini told journalists at the end of the day-long talks held in the Austrian capital on Saturday.

The fresh round of talks on the crisis in Syria opened in Vienna with the participation of senior representatives from 17 countries, the UN, EU and Arab League.

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