Kerry & Lavrov discuss fighting Daesh / ISIL in Syria

The meeting between the U.S.’ and Russian top-diplomats comes after a recent phone conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On June 26 the two presidents discussed terrorism in the Middle East and the so-called Islamic State, a.k.a Deash, ISIS orISIL with emphasis om the situation in Syria.

On June 29 Vladimir Putin met the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid Al-Muallem to the issue how to counter terrorism in the region.

Both the Russian and Syrian governments repeatedly stressed the need for an anti-terrorism policy that is consistent with international law and the urgent need to stop the overt and covert State sponsorship of Daesh, Jabhat al-Nusrah and other insurgencies including the newly re-branded Southern Front Alliance, by countries including the USA, UK, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, for his part, stressed that all non-Syrian players should join efforts in addressing the common threat of terrorism and violent extremism without the issue being overshadowed by geopolitical aims. Lavrov noted that the preconditions for the formation of a truly international coalition are more favorable today than ever and warned that radicals unleashed by foreign players would return like a boomerang.

It is worth recalling that former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas noted that top-UK officials asked him, in 2009, whether he wanted to "participate to overthrow the Syrian government with the help of rebels”. That was two years before the first "protests” in Syria i 2011.

It is also worth recalling that a person from within the inner circle around former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri provided evidence to nsnbc, showing that the final decision expand the war waged by ISIS in Syria to Iraq fell on the sidelines of the Atlantic Council’s Energy Summit in Turkey in November 2013.

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