I think that the more of Syria’s neighbours are involved in the settlement process the better. Why? Because almost every neighbouring nation affects some part of the process.
I feel that ignoring those opportunities, those interests, would be counterproductive, as diplomats like to say. In any case, this would complicate the process. We have cooperated with Iran on Afghanistan and we are still cooperating on certain other issues. And this should have nothing to do with the problems pertaining to Iran’s nuclear programme; that is a separate topic. Thus, in my view, it would be better to involve Iran in this process and secure its support. It would be better if the people inside Syria itself were able to agree with one another, and if all its neighbouring nations – all who can influence the situation – were to act as the guarantors of these agreements.
Question (addressed to US Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov): After your recent discussions, including on Syria and the episode of detention of a US Embassy official in Moscow on a charge of espionage, do you think that your collective work is constructive? Sergey Lavrov (answers after John Kerry): Regarding the incident of the detention of a US Embassy official in Moscow that you have mentioned, everything, that the Russian party wished to say about it, was said yesterday in the comment of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. I have nothing to add.
Dear Mr Chairman,Dear colleagues, friends, First of all, I would like to thank our Swedish hosts for their hospitality, good organization of the today’s meeting and to congratulate Mr Carl Bildt with the results that were reached by the Arctic Council under Swedish chairmanship.
Today we sign the second in history legally binding panarctic document – Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic. This is another evidence of high responsibility of Arctic countries for the state of affairs in the region. The next is the preparation of the Agreement on Marine Oil Spill Prevention.
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