Canada Joins International Syria Support Group – Foreign Minister

According to Canadian minister of foreign affairs, the country has made the disision to join the International Syria Support Group.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Canada will participated in its Tuesday meeting in Vienna, Austria, that focused on advancing the intra-Syrian talks, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion said in a press release.

“I am proud that Canada will now be at the International Syria Support Group,” Dion stated on Tuesday. “Together, we can and we must find a diplomatic solution to this conflict.”

The minister said the invitation for Ottawa to join the ISSG signals that the country is "making a difference" in countering the Islamic State, outlawed in many countries, including the United States and Russia, and bringing peace to Iraq and Syria.

It was reported earlier that the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) will adopt a declaration after its upcoming meeting in Vienna. It will include measures to maintain ceasefire in the whole of Syria and facilitate humanitarian access, a diplomatic source in one of the delegations told Sputnik.

The ISSG, co-chaired by Moscow and Washington, was formed in November 2015, shortly after the beginning of the Syria peace talks, as a panel of countries seeking to end bloodshed in Syria. The European Union, the Arab League, China, Iran, Turkey, and the United Nations are also members of the group.