Syrian FM says Damascus open to
co-operation at both regional and international level to combat Islamic
State fighters.
Syria
could work with West against 'terror'
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Syrian FM says Damascus
open to co-operation at both regional and international level to combat
Islamic State fighters.
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updated: 25 Aug 2014 13:34
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Muallem said Syria must be involved in co-ordinating any air strikes
against the Islamic State in Syria [AP]
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Syrian Foreign Minister
Walid Muallem has said that his country is ready to work with the
international community to battle against "terrorists" within
the framework of a recent UN resolution.
In a news conference
in Damascus on Monday, he also warned that Syria must be involved in
co-ordinating any air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, after
the US said it was considering extending operations into Syrian
territory.
"Syria is ready for
co-operation and co-ordination at the regional and international level to
fight terrorism and implement UN Security Council resolution 2170,"
Muallem said.
He confirmed, in response
to a question, that the country's willingness to do so would extend to
co-operating with the US and the UK.
Muallem added that Syria
was willing to participate in such efforts as part of a regional or
international coalition, or on the basis of bilateral cooperation.
However, he noted:
"We must feel that the co-operation is serious and not double standards.
"Any violation of
Syria's sovereignty would be an act of aggression."
Al Jazeera's Rula Amin,
reporting from Akkar, in neighbouring Lebanon said the successes of the Islamic
State group were pushing old rivals into allies.
The self-declared
jihadist Islamic State group has made advances in several parts of Syria,
including most recently Raqqa province, where it seized the army's
last provincial outpost on Sunday.
The UN Security Council
passed a rare unanimous resolution on August 15 intended to weaken armed
groups in Iraq and Syria by choking off their funding and stemming the
flow of foreign fighters.
The resolution targeted
both the Islamic State group and al-Nusra Front, which is al-Qaeda's
Syrian affiliate.
Syria's government
considers not only these two groups, but all those fighting to overthrow
President Bashar al-Assad to be "terrorists".
Meanwhile on
Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged Western and
Arab governments to overcome their distaste for Assad and
engage with him to fight the Islamic State.
"I think Western
politicians are already realising the growing and fast-spreading threat
of terrorism," Lavrov said, referring to Islamic State advances in
Syria and Iraq.
"And they will soon
have to choose what is more important: a [Syrian] regime change to satisfy
personal antipathies, risking deterioration of the situation beyond any
control, or finding pragmatic ways to unite efforts against the common
threat."
Russia has been Assad's
most prominent international backer in the civil war that broke out in
early 2011 and in which the US and the West, as well as many Gulf and
Arab states, backed the rebels seeking to oust him
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