YEREVAN (Sputnik) – Russia is concerned at the lack of separation between terrorist and opposition groups in the Syrian province of Aleppo and will continue working with US partners toward achieving that goal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
Speaking at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) ministerial meeting, Lavrov noted that Russian-US joint work on the cessation of hostilities continued at the military and diplomatic levels.
"Purely specific issues related to attacks on positions occupied by terrorists are being discussed. As part of this mechanism, we actively pursue from our US partners to fulfill commitments given long ago to delimit the opposition groups, which interact with the US coalition, from the Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra. We will continue this coordination further counting on specific results", he said, referring to the terror groups banned in countries including Russia.
The Russian diplomat singled out Aleppo as one of the areas where the line between rebels and jihadist militants remained vague.
