The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has invited representatives of the incoming Trump administration to the upcoming Syria peace talks in Kazakhstan. Speaking in Moscow on Tuesday Lavrov said he believes US and UN representatives should be invited to the meeting. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is against any US participation in the talks that are to be held in Astana on 1/23/17. He told Iran’s Tasnim news agency: “We are opposed to US presence (in the Astana meeting)”. “We have not invited the US and are against their presence,” he said. Sergey Lavrov however believes that US and UN representatives should be invited to the meeting. Foriegn Minister Lavrov also criticized the Obama administration for failing to save lives in Syria and watching idly as Islamic extremism and terrorism spread in the region. “Damascus was two to three weeks from falling” when Moscow intervened, said Lavrov. “All those who spent a year and a half silently watching IS and other militants surround Aleppo maybe committed a crime, as they breached the UN resolution, which stated that Syria should be prevented from turning into an Islamist state,” he concluded. RT.com reports: Lavrov said that extending an invitation to the [...]
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