Diplomat: Syria ready to join constructive forces in fight against ISIL

World September 27, 2014, 19:21

Muallem said they were ready to cooperate in the fight against ISIL with everyone who fights terrorists", - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said

UNITED NATIONS, September 27. /ITAR-TASS/. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem assured his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Saturday that Damascus was ready to join constructive forces in the fight against the Islamic State, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said.

“Muallem said they were ready to cooperate in the fight against ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) with everyone who fights terrorists and adheres to a constructive position,” Gatilov said.

“Their position, and they have already said so officially, is that everything that is happening there is not coordinated with them,” he added.

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